Discuss an issue or challenge facing contemporary Christianity.

Assignment  
Discuss an issue or challenge facing contemporary Christianity.

Formulate a thesis statement and an argument regarding a current problem or challenge facing Christianity in the United States.
Guidelines

Review the textbook chapter 5 “The Twentieth Century, 1914 to the Present,” pages 286 through 344.
Feel free to search for other sources in peer reviewed journals (using JSTOR in the library) or online sources about current issues of faith.
Some possible topics:

Gender roles in church leadership.
Sexual scandals and abuse among Protestant celebrity pastors and Catholic priests.
Current conflicts in theology and doctrine between faith and science.
Christian nationalism in politics.
Christian faith among millennials and GenZ.
Declining levels of faith and rising numbers of the “nones.” (see links below)

Books: 
David Kinnamen and Gabe Lyons, George Barna  unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity…and Why It Matters, 2012.
Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women became the Gospel Truth.  2021.