The Secret to Evangelizing the Nones, by H. W. Crocker III

By H. W. Crocker III, Crisis Magazine, Nov. 28, 2023

H. W Crocker III is a popular historian and novelist. His classic history of the Catholic Church Triumph, updated and expanded, has just been reissued in hardcover.

The falling away from Christianity by young people is often the result of them cultivating shallowness, superficiality, and solipsism as a philosophy of life.

My redoubt in Swampland, Mississippi, often feels like the Alamo. Out there beyond the mission walls, or beyond the borders of Mississippi, lie Satan’s forces, vast and snarling. Openly repellent, they nevertheless swarm through our institutions and, to an extraordinary degree, capture the allegiance of our young.

Like Colonel Travis, I have drawn my sword, carved a line in the sand, and invited volunteers to stand with me against the raging demons. But as you know, a morally courageous man is hard to find. …

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