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The Slow Exit

August 14th, 2023 | 5 min read

By Jake Meador

One objection that has come up repeatedly to my argument regarding dechurching is that whatever one says about the data, we all really know that the problem is that evangelicals are terrible. Put another way: The problem can't be people being too busy or American life not being conducive to thick ecclesial fellowship. The problem just has to be how bad evangelicals are.

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.

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