Two Elephants in the Room
Bodycomb, John
With familiar candour and colour, John Bodycomb excoriates church leadership for evading, and layering over with platitudes, two huge questions:• What future for organised religion in Western societies? and (in light of this) • What future for the so-called 'religious professional'?Fifty years a sociologist of religion, specialising in the ups and downs of organised religion, Bodycomb is plain-spoken and provocative. Institutional Christianity...