As the Rector of a growing Episcopal church, I've found myself increasingly troubled by the state of Christianity in America as realized in church participation.  I've witnessed firsthand the decline in church attendance and the closure of many congregations within the denomination that I grew up in.  For the last 15 years in ministry, I find I am having the same conversations that range in topic from who is involved, whose job is whose as it relates to nurture of children, scarcity, various business model questions and so forth.

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