Why So Many Young People Leave the Church

Why comfort, age-segregated churches, and disengaged parents are quietly eroding faith formation across generations

Last weekend, I spoke at the Good of the Bluegrass Conference at Tates Creek Presbyterian Church (Lexington, KY), where the organizing theme was a deceptively powerful sentence: We are a Covenantal Community that embraces who we are, where we are, and what we will become. That line names a growing unease I encounter everywhere I travel. Churches sense t…