Let's Keep The Church Un-Cool

In a recent Washington Post article entitled 'How to keep Millennials in the church? Let’s keep church un-cool.', Brett McCacken wrote: 'Last week a column on CNN’s Belief Blog titled “Why Millennials Are Leaving the Church” went viral, partially because any time the words “Millennials,” “leaving,” and “church” are combined in a headline, people pay attention.

But why? Why do we care so much about the reasons Millennials are reportedly leaving churches?'

From there McCacken addressed a subject he has written about previously, 'The Perils of Wannabe Cool Christianity' saying, “If the evangelical Christian leadership thinks that ‘cool Christianity’ is a sustainable path forward, they are severely mistaken. As a twentysomething, I can say with confidence that when it comes to church, we don’t want cool as much as we want real.”

On the program today I will talk with Brett McCracken about his Washington Post article and about his latest book, 'Gray Matters