[tip] This post has been updated.  The original (and “inferior” one) can be found here. [/tip]

Julia, I have finished reading your book called Quitting Church: Why The Faithful Are Fleeing And What To Do About It. I enjoyed reading the book and found myself nodding in agreement on every page. At first, I was a little disappointed because I didn’t feel that you had added much to the conversation.  It seemed that a lot of your material was based on surveys and research that were well known and readily available to all of us already.  However, after re-reading the book I realize that was not a fair assessment.  Although some of your material did come from these surveys, it is helpful to have it all summarized here in one place.