What are you doing here?
Someone asks me this question after the service, a woman whose name I don’t quite catch. She doesn’t mean it how it sounds. What she wants to do is welcome me, and find out what brought me here in the first place.This question is more complicated than you might think. It’s a husk, containing the kernel of another, deeper question—a question about faith and religion and church in the 21st century, in an age of science and new atheists, churches in decline, the Tea Party in ascendance, and pastors burning Qurans and waving signs that say “God Hates Fags”: Why bother? Why church, why now? What’s the point? Just what in God’s name are you doing here?
Andrew DeYoung reflects on finding a way of being Christian that he can live with, in this week’s piece exploring churches that attempt to appeal to younger congregations in the Twin Cities.
You know that part in The Graduate when the lady goes “proud proud proud proud proud proud proud”? That’s how I feel about this one, and all the others.
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