“Insofar as movement conservatism has followed the incentives of this mass politics, incessantly focused on winning national elections, it has taken the ‘popular conservative’ instinct that Kirk identified and redirected it in the direction of personal grievance and collective projects.
“More than 2 in 3 Americans (68 percent) say God is unchanging…. Seven in 10 (71 percent) agree there is one true God in three Persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.” - Baptist Press
“Half of Americans believe a terminally ill person should be able to ask a doctor for help in ending their life. Legal approval has outpaced the growth in public support.” - The Baptist Paper
“The moral views of Americans are not static, however. Many have shifted over the more than 20 years Gallup has conducted this poll. Mostly, Americans have grown more permissive.” - Baptist Press
Editor’s note: A version of this article posted in 2017. It has been updated.
Everybody has always lived in changing times. Today, the times just change faster. The speed and quantity of information, coupled with the scope and density of communications interconnectedness, has accelerated cultural change in the West and to some degree everywhere else.
“The meaning of American conservatism is perhaps more hotly contested today than at any other point in the movement’s history.” - L&L
“The percentage of U.S. adults who say they consume alcohol has fallen to 54%, the lowest by one percentage point in Gallup’s nearly 90-year trend.” - Gallup
“This is similar to what we found in July 2020, when 52% said these statements were important and 48% said they were not important.” - Pew
“Some people are misusing ‘civilizational moment’ as a fancy word for the present moment. No, it has a real definition. A civilizational moment is that period, not a day, a period when a civilization loses touch with what made it great.” - Os Guinness
“After peaking in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the divorce rate has been falling in recent decades. In fact, the divorce rate has hit a 50-year-low. Since the 1980s, each cohort of married couples has seen their risk of divorce decline, as the figure below indicates.” - IFS
