national crisis but never permitted to interfere with the business of “real life.” In short, the church gets no free pass from the culture these days—no automatically accorded place of respect. There is an increasingly large number of unchurched people, and unchurched Christians are one of the fastest growing segments within American Christianity. Sociologist Alan Wolfe has written about the struggle of American churches to keep pace with the culture. As a nonbeliever himself, Wolfe provides a fascinating