"The Great De-Churching:" So, What Thing Is The New "Religion" For People?

Seems like "identity" is the new religion, but you can also make a case for "work."

This here is a newsletter I do a couple of times per week. Right now, after 22 years in the white-collar salt mines, I’m mostly bartending and doing some odd jobs here and there. Not a ton of income these days, honestly. It’s been both eye-opening, freeing, stressful, and depressing at the same time. I write about tons of different things here and on Medium, including work, friendships, relationships, faith, my own struggles with addiction, my own struggles with infertility, and more. If you’d be interested in reading some stuff like that and periodically even connecting about the randomness of life, feel free to subscribe to this bad boy. If not, you can still share it.

This particular one is about religion and where we find what religion used to seemingly provide, because it’s not within pews as much anymore. I myself am decently faithful but also resent the general idea of stand-and-sit Christianity, and/or being involved in churches as a path to social capital or moral hygiene. So, I try to cut through some of that particular bullshit here.