The modern Western Church is not under attack. It is on the table.
In The Autopsy of the Modern Church, Rev. Ottis Atkinson performs a forensic examination of an institution that traded transcendence for relevance - and paid for it with its soul. Organ by organ, he dissects the systemic failure of a Church that mistook psychological comfort for spiritual formation, and slowly, willingly, replaced the Pastor with the Therapist in the pulpit.
This is not nostalgia dressed as lament. It is a diagnosis. With the precision of a pathologist and the conviction of a preacher, Atkinson traces how a Church built for holiness quietly learned to soothe rather than resurrect - offering feelings without a skeleton of truth to stand on. The Brain. The Lungs. The Skeletal System. The Foreign Body. Each organ examined, each failure named, each cause of death recorded.
Yet the autopsy does not end in the morgue. It ends at the maternity ward. For those willing to face the findings, the final chapter is not death - it is the anatomy of a resurrected Church.
The Autopsy of the Modern Church is essential reading for pastors, counselors, seminarians, and every serious believer who refuses to settle for a faith that merely manages rather than transforms.
"A necessary coroner's directive. It challenges us to stop administering placebos to a system that needs a resurrection."
- Sidney McGill, MA, DMin, Christian Integral Counselor
"Focused, direct, and deeply argued. Atkinson shows how small changes in emphasis can reshape an entire institution."
- Dr. Angela Kingdon, Author and TEDx Speaker
