The General Social Survey--the "gold standard" of polls--is out for 2022, giving updated statistics for the state of American religion. It confirms the decline in religious affiliation. A common theme is aversion to institutions of all kinds. Might reforming and reviving our other institutions help the cause of religious institutions like the church?
Religious affiliation is declining in the United States. How might we reverse that trend?
Tim Keller, the former pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan who brought the Gospel to thousands of sophisticated New Yorkers and thoughtful readers, has died. Daniel K. Williams describes why Keller was so effective in his apologetics and in his evangelism, recounting how Keller kept him from giving up Christianity by means of Law and Gospel.
"Smart people" are the ones who most fear Artificial Intelligence. But intelligence is only one faculty of the human mind, and not necessarily the most important. Intelligence, or computing power, has nothing to do with consciousness, imagination, or volition. And most of our problems are not due to a lack of intelligence.
The refusal of businesses to take cash--as a way to eliminate having to give change, to prevent theft, and to streamline record keeping--is a growing trend, accelerated by the COVID fear of infection. But some people are objecting, insisting on the value of paying with cash money. My bizarre experience with this involving "Tulsa King" and LAX.
The next big thing in diversity, Silicon Valley turns to "post-rationalism," and half of all internet traffic is bots.
For some time, many artists and writers, having given up on the concept of "beauty" as a mode of cultural oppression, have developed an aesthetic that seeks to be "transgressive." But our moral and cultural norms have become so weakened that there are no values left to transgress. Except for those of woke progressivism.
Some Republicans are saying that conservatives should concentrate on the economy as a political issue, rather than continuing to wage the "culture war." But John Daniel Davidson says that the culture is the only issue. What do you think?
In discussing "The Future of Christianity," R. R. Reno cites a trend that Christians need to be aware of: "A growing challenge to Christianity from the anti-Christian right." Why some conservatives are turning against Christianity and how to answer them.
The English conservative philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) distinguishes between the politics of faith and the politics of skepticism. This is not a distinction between religious and secularist politics. Rather, it has to do with faith in politics vs. skepticism about politics.
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