Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Rainy Day Reading Continues (Even Though It Cleared Up)

Finished one book.
Swam through some difficult parts of another.
Started a third.

The third one is called "Dear Church." You can read snippets if you click on the Burnside Writers Collective link on the left. The subtitle is "Letters from a Disillusioned Generation" so you can tell the work is going to be pointing out (lovingly done thus far, by the way) the reasons the organized church is losing the twenty-somethings.

Keep in mind the book starts out with plenty of statistical support from Barna, Gallup, Easum and all the right quotes and such.

The author is a preacher's kid...one who made all the right choices and never went through a rebellious phase of any kind. And now she's disillusioned...but she also proffers some solutions as well.

So, what I'm asking you today is from one of her quotes: "To tactfully state the obvious, many twentysomethings are disillusioned with you, Church."

Presupposing the research to be right and her conclusion based on those to be accurate, finish the letter stating why do you think she'd make such a statement. I'd really be curious to hear your reasons...

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