Journalist Rod Dreher used to find comfort when seeing rows of churches along roads in his home state of Louisiana.
The world might be going crazy in places like New York City and Washington, D.C. – where Dreher had worked as a journalist – but it felt good to know the Bible Belt still existed.
But that changed as the popular digital scribe – his weblog at The American Conservative gets a million-plus hits a month – kept digging into research about life inside most of those churches. The bottom line: There's a reason so many young Americans say they have zero ties to any faith tradition.
Read Full Article »