#458 Why Women Are Leaving the Church (And How To Find Your Way Back)
Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex
Authentic Intimacy®
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In the last ten years, some 16 million women have stopped going to church. Are you one of them? Join us for a conversation about why we've been rethinking church—and why it may be time for you to go back.
Guest: Ericka Andersen
Show notes:
- Spring online book studies are open! Register here.
- A Reason to Return; Why Women Need the Church and the Church Needs Women by Ericka Andersen
- Church Is Good for You. It's Time to Go Back (Juli's blog)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friend, welcome to Job with Julie. I'm Julie Slattery and thanks so much for joining me. |
| 0:06.0 | This podcast is an outreach of authentic intimacy and ministry dedicated to reclaiming God's design for sexuality. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, we are coming up on Easter this weekend and I wonder, are you planning to go to church? |
| 0:20.0 | You know, I meet more and more Christians |
| 0:22.5 | who have just given up on church. We're too busy, too disappointed in our leaders, maybe tired |
| 0:28.4 | of the politics, and it's just easier to watch your favorite pastor on YouTube or binge on |
| 0:33.8 | religious podcasts. In fact, according to a recent Pew study, |
| 0:38.0 | Protestant churches are around 85% attendance when compared to pre-COVID attendance levels. |
| 0:44.5 | I guess we've just been rethinking church, and that's particularly true of women. |
| 0:49.8 | Well, today I've invited Erica Anderson, Sylvester, to join me to talk about why this is happening |
| 0:55.2 | and why we need to go back to church. Erica is a wife, a mom, and a freelance writer. She's |
| 1:01.8 | written for major publications like the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington |
| 1:06.0 | Post. She's a columnist for World Magazine opinions and a contributor to Christianity Today. |
| 1:12.4 | But most recently, she's written a book called Reason to Return, Why Women Need the Church and the Church Needs Women. |
| 1:19.5 | Before we head to the coffee shop, I want to let you know that registration for our spring online book studies is open. |
| 1:26.2 | Now, we have online studies going through God sectioning your marriage, rethinking sexuality, |
| 1:31.2 | surprised by the healer, passion pursuit, grace-based recovery from women and sex in the single girl. |
| 1:37.1 | These groups meet weekly on Zoom and they're led by an authentic intimacy train leader and include a live Q&A with the author of the book. And a lot of |
| 1:45.5 | times that's me, so I get to meet you on Zoom. And if you're an authentic intimacy member, you get |
| 1:50.4 | 25% off. Now, these groups fill up fast, so head to authenticinnocacy.com to register today. |
| 1:57.9 | Now, here is my conversation with Erica Anderson, Sylvester. So Erica, it is not easy to |
| 2:05.6 | write a book, and usually we don't write books because we have a passing thought. It's a topic |
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