They're looking for "a church that isn't a church," to use Rachel Martin's phrase.
As far as I can see, Bacon and Martin are raising important questions about what societies lose when they lose key institutions that are centered on building community and recognizing that we are all, churched or unchurched, across racial, age, gender, and all other lines, in it together. Healthy societies need such institutions. And churches have for many of us failed to be them.