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In Barna's latest survey, plurality, not prayer, is the real story

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Jason Coker on September 21st, 2026

Last week Barna released new research results from their State of the Church initiative, and there's some interesting indicators. “We keep asking whether young people are coming back or falling away, as if it’s one tide moving in one direction,” says Barna’...

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I think the blame could go the other way

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Jason Coker on September 18th, 2026

Kathryn Post interviews Sarah Stankorb about her new book, Damned If She Does, on why women are leaving churches: At the conservative organization Turning Point USA’s Women’s Summit in June, speakers repeatedly pointed to feminism as reason for women’s exit from religion....

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The Ghost of Christendom's Past

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Jason Coker on September 15th, 2026

I’ve been revisiting some of the writing from my old blog Pastoralia (initially on Blogger, then Wordpress) where I wrote about church, leadership, and theology from 2006 to 2016. So here I am, ten years removed from something I did fairly intensively for ten years.

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In Barna's latest survey, plurality, not prayer, is the real story

I think the blame could go the other way

The Ghost of Christendom's Past

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