You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving Church...and Rethinking Faith

This examination of attrition and disengagement among young Christians provides new labels to an old problem - youth questioning the religious faith in which they were raised. Terms such as Prodigals, Nomads and Exiles are the terms that Kinnaman uses to define various forms of alienation experienced by Christian youth. It's a hip way to describe an un-hip subject - ennui amongst Christian youth. The ultimate problem for me was that his modern terminology seems undercut but his narrow conclusions of what it means to be an adult in society; heterosexual marriage and having children. He thinks youth resistance to his version of adulthood is causing a drop in numbers. (Meanwhile the author pays no lip service to sexual abuse scandals that have caused many to abandon their Christian faith). If Kinnaman is serious about trying to address the sagging enrollment amongst Christians - he may need to rethink the modern definition of grown-up, and try to embrace that changing demographic rather offering a prescription of how the church can get the horse back to water.