Is there a religious revival in America?  We used data from Pew to answer this question, and we talk about cultural malaise and how religion falls on deaf ears, and how it may speak to us again.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

00:30 Meditation & Contemplation

10:09 Key Questions about the Religious Revival

12:46 Religious Decline Has Stopped

15:40 Why are People Turning Away from Religion?

24:34 Traditional vs Liberal Mass

28:23 There’s No Such Thing as Dragons

32:23 Narrow Philosophy

35:42 Strange Philosophies in Our Time

37:21 Where is Our Agora?

42:50 The Need for Community and Meaning

49:15 Why I Started this Podcast 

50:52 A New Religious Way Out of Our Zombie Life

(From a discussion on Religious Revival and Renewal)

See this doc for description ideas: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ek66Ru4HpNJtYQWP6crrus5-Z_x-3aBKV5RnD7lGcE0/edit?tab=t.0

Pew Article: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/12/08/religion-holds-steady-in-america/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Richard Reeves’ Post:

​​https://x.com/RichardvReeves/status/2002400790208463046?s=20

AP Article about Modern Orthodoxy:

https://apnews.com/article/young-converts-online-eastern-orthodoxy-eef496dcd83a061d90a0b7aba33b6113

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