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November 24, 2011

Democrat-Gazette: Author studies why young Christians leave church

by Christie Storm
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

David Kinnaman knows statistics. As president of the research company the Barna Group he tracks trends in matters of faith. While conducting interviews for his 2007 book unChristian, co-authored with Gabe Lyons, Kinnaman was startled to find that many young Christians shared the same negative views of the church as their nonchurchgoing peers.

So he turned his attention to a problem common in many churches - young Christian adults missing from the pews.

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