America is experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in its history, greater than the first and the second great awakening in every revival in the U.S. combined.

But instead of a massive shift into the church, what we're seeing is a mass exodus and the greatest de-churching in nearly 250 years. Welcome to the Roy's

report, a podcast dedicated to reporting the truth and restoring the church. I'm Julie Roy's. And on this

podcast, you'll hear from Michael Graham, co-author of the new book, The Great Dechurching. Based on the most

comprehensive study of people leaving the

church in America, the book gives keen insights into this phenomenon. You'll learn why people are

leaving the church, which demographics are leaving in the greatest numbers, and what can be done to

stop the bleed. And the results may surprise followers of this podcast. Though much of our reporting focuses on corruption

and abuse in the church, these issues were not the greatest factors people cited for leaving. The

reasons were much more mundane than you might think, and we'll dig into those in just a minute.

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Michael Graham, program director at the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics. He's also the

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