Two Elephants in the Room

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 as we have known it began to decline