There’s talk of revival in the air. Some of us have been predicting it for a while, but now there are little sparks of religious faith flaring up all over the cultural landscape: among the young men of Gen Z, for instance, and on some college campuses. At high-powered functions in Silicon Valley.
Church attendance generally continues to decline, but there are signs that the momentum may be shifting in key places. Bible sales in America ticked up by 22% last year, while the country was bracing for its most dramatic election in living memory. The guy who won, of course, sells a Bible of his own.
Global turmoil, a technological revolution, and rapid public mood swings...it’s just the sort of moment when you’d expect a people to lean for stability on its ancestral faith. Which raises the question: just what is America’s ancestral faith, exactly?
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