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It\u2019s no secret in Christian circles that young people are leaving the church in droves, with\u00a0\u00a0Christian research firms<\/a>\u00a0finding over and over<\/a>\u00a0that once there\u2019s not a parent there to push them to church, the majority of high school kids drift away from religion once they move out of the house. Some come back, but some leave permanently.<\/span><\/div>\n
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One favorite solution is to try to make the church more hip by employing young, seemingly cool Christians who are in tune with modern pop culture as leaders. A lot of these\u00a0young, hip Christians are actually quite progressive<\/a>\u00a0in their politics. In a lot of cases, however, the change from the cranky, judgmental church of old is purely aesthetic. If you scratch the surface of these seemingly with-it young Christian leaders, you\u2019ll see they\u2019re peddling the same old sex-negative, hyper-conservative intolerance that motivates their elders.<\/span><\/div>\n
Here\u2019s a list of some of the leaders who are trying to make conservative Christianity seem cool, and who generally fail because conservative Christianity is the exact opposite of cool.<\/span><\/div>\n
Read the rest here<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s no secret in Christian circles that young people are leaving the church in droves, with\u00a0\u00a0Christian research firms\u00a0finding over and over\u00a0that once there\u2019s not a parent there to push them to church, the majority of high school kids drift away from religion once they move out of the house. 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