Are We Experiencing a Religious Revival?

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat (Lean Right bias), a Catholic, has a new book arguing that everyone should be religious, though it's too early to tell if there will be a revival. 

Religious “Nones” On The Way Out? In Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, Douthat argues that atheism is a spent force. “With church attendance falling, mainstream journalists are now safe to admit the decline has had negative social consequences,” a piece in The Dispatch (Lean Right) added.

Political Effects: The right is increasingly post-religious. But a revival might come less from a political divide and more from a class divide. Several Silicon Valley leaders, including Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, have converted to Christianity in recent years. 

Gen Z: Gen Z “is more likely than any other generation to think faith has a place in the modern world, according to a study by Theos,” The Economist (Lean Left) said. The piece in The Economist focused on how TikTok is shaping faith, and making it more attractive to young people. TikTok makes religion less formal and more accessible. One online influencer who runs a digital ministry, Taylan Michael Seaman, says he started a “virtual revival” training a thousand preachers and inspiring around 750,000 conversions. Young men are also increasingly converting to Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity.