'Follow your heart' is bad advice. It will damage your faith

Our culture no longer defers to religious authority. But, increasingly, neither do people within the Church, says Sam Reimer. It is the biggest challenge our leaders will ever face

Weekly church attendance has declined to roughly 5 per cent in Britain. Many former Christians are becoming “nonverts”, disaffiliating from Christianity to become religious “nones.” Clergy accurately sense that they are losing their authority in society; indeed, they are losing their authority among their own congregants. The Church used to critique society, and people listened. Now society critiques the Church. So what has changed?