Mainstream Christian churches have “lost track of being doctors of the soul” just when society needs it most, a vicar has warned.
Churches are offering a “bland, undemanding version of Christianity that is decaf” and gives nothing but “a series of woke tropes,” said Reverend Daniel French, vicar of the seaside town of Salcombe, south Devon and co-host of the popular Irreverend podcast.
Speaking to NTD’s “British Thought Leaders” programme, Reverend French said there has been a “migration” of people from atheism towards a “classical Christianity,” a process that accelerated during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
But he said the mainstream churches are not responding to this, and are instead focused on chasing a “very narrow” constituency of left-leaning activists, who will never come to church anyway….