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apologeticskyi.com. I grew up a Christian, but neither of my parents or my husband's parents really grew up in the church.

And so it became kind of a moral choice for them initially and kind of blossomed into this 90s subculture evangelicalism that many of us are now working

through.

This is Ashley Hales.

Ashley is a mom, a church planner's wife, a scholar, and a writer.

Her book, Finding Holy Then the Suburbs, is about her experience moving from an urban context

back home to a suburban one, and trying to find the same sense of vibrancy, beauty,

and, well, holiness, and the ordinary spaces she found herself.

I've always loved the church in its various guises.

And yeah, it's become, it's continued to be a touchstone. Yeah, I wonder about,

you know, there's been so much that's happened recently with, you know, the whole ex-vangelical

movement and, or people just walking away from the faith and a lot of prominent figures have

done this recently. And I wonder how much of that is shaped by the culture of the 90s that we grew up in, right?

Because it was, I think everybody was, well, I shouldn't say everybody.

So many of my friends that have walked away grew up in these evangelical megachurches, big youth groups, lots of hype, lots of spectacle.

And it just makes me wonder, is this, have people just burned out?

Have they, or has it just not lived up to their sort of emotional expectations because of what they experienced as, you know, as kids?

Yeah, I think part of it is we've been given kind of a Christianity in a subcultural form that was not robust enough to deal with real life.

And, you know, I think there's a sense in which, I think, you know, for all the,

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