Why We’re Leaving Church – a report from the Nones

The same day news outlets around the country carried a notable headline — “Protestants Lose Majority Status in US” — I was in a jam-packed church, speaking about my new book on Christian identity in a multi-faith world. The article explored recent Pew research about the rise of the “Nones”, religiously unaffiliated Millennials, and the corresponding decline in both Mainline and Evangelical Protestant church affiliation.
After my lecture, several young Christian adults talked with me about how the headline resonates with one of the book’s main ideas — that Christianity has carried on a long affair with empire and colonialism, and as a result, has picked up the imperial auto-immune disease of “hostility to the other.”

From my latest Huffington Post piece, here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-d-mclaren/why-were-leaving-church-a-report-from-the-nones_b_1955997.html