The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?
About this ebook
It is greater than the First and Second Great Awakening and every revival in our country combined...but in the opposite direction. Yet precious little rigorous study has been done on the broad phenomenon of dechurching in America. Jim Davis and Michael Graham have commissioned the largest and most comprehensive study of dechurching in America by renowned sociologists Dr. Ryan Burge and Dr. Paul Djupe.
The Great Dechurching takes the insights gleaned from this study to drill down on how exactly people are dechurching with respect to beliefs, behavior, and belonging.
This book gives the church in America its first ever deep dive into the dechurched phenomenon. You'll learn about the dechurched through a detailed sketch of demographics, size, core concerns, church off-ramps, historical roots, and the gravity of what is at stake. Then you'll explore what can be done to slow the bleed, engage the pertinent issues winsomely and wisely, and hopefully re-church some of the dechurched.
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About the author
Jim Davis is teaching pastor at Orlando Grace Church (Acts 29). He is the host of the As in Heaven podcast on The Gospel Coalition podcast network and serves as a writer for The Dechurched Initiative. Jim writes frequently for The Gospel Coalition, Acts 29, and Family Life. He and his wife, Angela, speak for Family Life’s Weekend to Remember marriage getaways.
Michael Graham is the Program Director for The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics with The Gospel Coalition. Before that he was a pastor and missionary (CRU) for 15 years and had a second career in finance. Michael’s expertise is in mapping macro trends in evangelicalism, project management, coalition and institution building, and artificial intelligence.
Ryan P. Burge is a Professor of Practice at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. He holds a PhD in political science and has published thirty peer reviewed articles and academic book chapters. In addition, he has written for nearly every major media outlet in the United States: The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and is often quoted in the POLITICO, The Atlantic, and other leading publications. He has appeared on 60 Minutes, where Anderson Cooper called him, “one of the leading data analysts of religion and politics in the United States.” He was also a pastor in the American Baptist Church for over twenty years.
