American Culture

“When a Silicon Valley billionaire starts hosting sold-out lectures on the antichrist, you know we’ve entered strange times. But for those of us who grew up in the 1970s, it’s not just strange; it’s strangely familiar.” - TGC

“…a return to religion in a culture is not necessarily revival. It could be just a cultural rebalancing, even if many of those are turning to true faith in Jesus Christ. In the worst case, a ‘Christian revival’ can be an emotional social contagion in the same way that transgenderism has been over the last decade—albeit a good and much less destructive one.” - P&D

“When looking at partisanship and ideology together, conservative Republicans are the group most likely to say they come across inaccurate news: 53% say this happens extremely often or often.” - Pew

“Surveys from Gallup and Pew find broad skepticism for psychics, ghosts, astrology and witches.” - Baptist Press

MAGA Christianity, the traditional Religious Right, the old Religious Left, the Evangelical Left, black Protestantism, Roman Catholic social witness, Anti-MAGA Evangelicals, Christian Realism - Mark Tooley

“To be sure, most Americans continue to say that religion’s role in society is declining. But the share who take this position fell sharply from 80% in 2024 to 68% in 2025.” - Pew

“What is true revival, what are the signs of true revival, and are we seeing those signs in American life and culture? … we can hope to do only so much in just a few hundred words, but I did want to turn to a few people who study American religious life and see what they had to say.” - MinistryWatch

“An analysis of the 2022-2023 Cooperative Election Study, surveying nearly 85,000 Americans, found a positive correlation between education and weekly religious attendance. The rate of attendance rises from 23% among high school graduates to 30% for those with graduate degrees.” - Unherd

“In The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, Trueman writes, ‘speaking with profanity is now considered evidence of integrity, a performance of authenticity.’ Somehow, this belief has leaked into the Christian community.’” - World

“As always, the victims are not to blame, society is not to blame. Blame must always be put squarely on the shoulders of the one who commits the crime.” - P&D