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b'According to the most recent Gallup poll [in the year 2000], 95% of United States residents continue to believe in God. They simply stop going to church, where the language they hear about God neither matches the reality of their lives nor feeds the hunger of their hearts. They design their own worldviews\\u2026Along the way, they acquire new language that better describes the world as they understand it, and many of them never darken the doorway of a church again\\u2026To use my own language, what I believe each of these young people is seeking is some kind of salvation - that is, a transformed way of life in the world that is characterized by peace, meaning, and freedom. In the search process, each has to come up against the interior and exterior obstacles to that way of life - what I would call sin\\u2014and each has discovered some tools for surmounting those obstacles\\u2026They are all involved in turning away from an old way of life and turning toward a new way that promises them more abundant life. My curiosity as a Christian - and also, to be honest, my sorrow - is about how the language of the church failed them so badly that they have decided to look elsewhere for life.\\nSpeaking of Sin: The Lost Language of Salvation \\nby Barbara Brown Taylor'