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Cultural Trends

Four Trends Shaping Ministry Strategy This Year

By Filings on Mon, 06/08/26
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“Spiritual openness among Americans is at a notable high, but turning that openness into discipleship remains one of the most pressing questions…. For the first time in decades, men now outpace women in church attendance…. Nearly half of practicing Christians have already turned to AI for personal growth” - Barna

Plundering the Mercenaries: On Knowing What Time It Is

By Filings on Tue, 08/20/24
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“Something is different. But I contend that it’s not that different…. ‘What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun’ (Eccl. 1:9)…. Even as the world is chaotic, we can be calm, friendly, and convictional in its midst.” - London Lyceum

It’s Time for a Change: The Case for a New Ministry Model

By Filings on Thu, 03/30/23
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“We cannot continue to lament that our communities are becoming more secular while assuming a ministry model designed for a predominantly Christian culture will effectively reach them.” - Lifeway

PRRI research: LGBTQ Americans Tend to Be Younger and Have No Religion

By Filings on Mon, 03/27/23
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“PRRI’s researchers found that about 10% of Americans overall — almost half (46%) of them under the age of 30 — identify as LGBTQ: 3% as gay or lesbian, 4% as bisexual and 2% as something else. Nearly one-quarter of Americans under 30 identify as LGBTQ (23%).” - C.Leaders

Rise in LGBTQ+ population slows

By Filings on Thu, 03/16/23
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“After climbing steadily for almost a decade, the percentage of Americans who identify as LGBTQ remained steady at 7.2% in 2022, according to the latest Gallup survey.” - BPNews

The Age of Anxiety: Understanding our cultural moment and what comes next

By Filings on Fri, 01/20/23
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“there is a more profound theological reason that the Age of Feeling turns to an Age of Anxiety. We are creatures and not the Creator. We were never designed to bear the impossible weight of creating and sustaining our identities.” - World

Is the World Getting Better or Worse? Yes.

By Filings on Fri, 04/16/21
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“Both! This world is getting better and it is getting worse at the same time! The good seed is growing and producing an abundant harvest. The grain on one stalk is much more than the little seed that was cast into the ground. And the weeds are growing too.” - Colin Smith

The Creepy Normalization of Bulverism

By Filings on Fri, 10/26/18
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“Bulverism is a toxic hybrid of two better-known fallacies: petitio principii (begging the question) and ad hominem (impugning one’s opponent’s character without addressing his argument).” - Intellectual Takeout

Shootings, Grace, and the Gospel: An Interview with Pastor Eddie Bevill of Parkridge Church on the Parkland Shooting

By Filings on Mon, 02/19/18
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“I’m praying that our churches, our church specifically, and other Bible-believing churches in our area, that we will point people to Jesus. …He’s the only one who can bring peace where there is nothing but lostness and struggle and anger and fury and confusion.” CToday

5 Reactions to 'The Benedict Option'

By Filings on Fri, 03/31/17
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“The book’s main argument is that Christians of various denominations must create a counterculture and leave a mainstream American culture that is increasingly hostile to biblical Christianity.”

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