Why did I leave the institutional church?  How much time do you have? Some factors: a bone-deep sense of weariness.  Frustration.  A yearning for something more substantive, authentic, and relevant.  Burn-out.  Boredom.  Cliques.  Performance-based churchianity.  Lock-step-it-is. “Old boys clubs.”  Rote routines.  Feeling like a round peg being squashed into a pre-fabricated, artificial square hole.  Disrespect.... Read More