It’s Easter. The sanctuary is full, the parking lot is overflowing, and the greeters can’t hand out worship guides fast enough. You look around and think, This must be the unchurched finally showing up.
But here’s the surprise: Most of those new faces aren’t new at all.
Is the Gen Z 'revival' in the US skin deep?
Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk last year, anecdotes began pouring in of churches filled with young men and more and more Bibles being sold. Now, however, veteran researcher Dr George Barna has questioned whether what looked like the beginnings of spiritual revival may have been only skin deep.
Dr Barna, of the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, said that his own research suggests there are no signs that a biblical worldview has started to take root in America.
Survey: Americans alone in finding fellow citizens 'morally bad'
Still, the findings ‘don’t support that Americans are overarchingly more judgmental or moralistic than in other countries,’ said Jonathan Evans, senior researcher at Pew Research Center.
A Council to Lead the Communion
"Believing that the current Instruments of Communion no longer meet the needs of the majority of Anglicans around the world, the Global Anglican Communion is to be led by a conciliar structure. The Global Anglican Council has discerned that if we are to move past old structures, we must leave behind old titles as well."
Related: Conservative Anglican leaders meet in Nigeria to elect a leader, fueling concerns of schismEPN speakers press Christians to resist anti-democratic movements as church plans for future
Keynote speakers at the Episcopal Parish Network conference underway here this week emphasized the importance of The Episcopal Church’s faith-based witness in the public sphere. The church, they said, has both the privilege and the responsibility to counter movements toward Christian nationalism, a political ideology that distorts Christian beliefs, and to oppose the Trump administration’s attacks on American democratic norms.
Who was St Piran and why is he the patron saint of Cornwall?
5 March is St Piran’s Day, the feast day of the patron saint of Cornwall. But who was St Piran, and what do we know about him? This is the story....
Equipping Students for Evangelism and Summer Mission Trips
If you have a summer mission trip planned, begin helping students grow in familiarity and comfort with the gospel now.
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