A Christian Looks at Forty

First, we mourn the passing of another musical giant, Jimmy Buffett. Seriously, this is getting to be too much. The Godfather of Island Country (not beach bum soft rock… go to hell NPR), he was both ubiquitous and underappreciated. 

Then Tim and Colton discuss two articles that deal with the de-churching in America. Why are Middle-Aged Americans not going back to church? Is the American over-scheduling, over-achieving way of life leading to churchgoing getting crowded out? Has our agrarian and industrial-age model of church run its course and is in need of a simple replacement? Home church? Maybe. But let’s be honest that home church has downsides too.

• • https://www.wsj.com/articles/church-attendance-religion-generation-x-6ee5f11d
  • https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/christian-church-communitiy-participation-drop/674843/

Beer of the Week

• • Stone Brewing Co. Fight On! Pale Ale
  • Stone Brewing Co. Oside Oasis Cold IPA

Music of the Week

• • Tim - Bruce Hornsby
  • Colton - Kanya West (“Late Registration” and “College Dropout”)
  • Jimmy Buffett’s "Margaritaville” and “A Pirate Looks at Forty”

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