#1313 Ryan Burge: The Vanishing Church

Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricard Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Ryan Burge. He's professor of practice at the John C. Dunforth Center at Washington University in St. Louis. And today we're going to talk about his book. The vanishing church, how the hollowing out of moderate congregations is hurting democracy, faith. And uh so Doctor Burge, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to everyone.

Thanks so much for having me. Okay, so Um Вот ісе із A moderate

religion. I mean Вот характеризя з модерс пиво. Yeah, so the the subtitle of the book is you know how long out of moderate congregations. I I don't mean that in those congregations that everyone is a moderate. Uh Right. No, if we if we think of political ideology as a scale from one to ten, you know, one being very liberal and ten being very conservative. I'm not talking about a congregation where everyone's a five. I'm talking about a congregation where for every one there's a ten and for every two there's a nine.

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