State of the Black Church: The Missing Men and the Competing Gospels

Black Religious Identity Cults, Urban Apologetics, and Metamodernism

A Four-Part Series on the State of the Black Church | Part 2 of 4

Hip-hop recording artist Kendrick Lamar represents a generation of Black men the church has struggled to reach.

THE MISSING MEN

Of all the demographic patterns embedded in the data, none is more consequential or more underreported than the departure of young Black men from the church. Pew'…