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Secularism
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Review
Remaking God’s Image in the Image of Secular Society
A religion scholar’s assumptions about historical progress distort the legacy of a central Christian doctrine.
News
European Evangelism Congress Preaches Hope Despite Rising Secular Tide
Franklin Graham recalls, “God has often chosen the worst of time to do his best work.”
Public Theology Project
Jordan Peterson’s Pause
YouTube atheists were right to expect a better response to the question “Are you a Christian?” But there are worse answers.
Review
Has Faith Gone Out of Fashion?
A symposium on Christian Smith’s book Why Religion Went Obsolete.
Review
The What and the Why of Religious Decline
One is relatively simple to map out. The other is much harder to capture.
Review
Young Nones Might Not Hate Religion. But They Don’t Like the Vibes.
How Christian Smith’s concept of a “Millennial Zeitgeist” helps explain their recent retreat from faith.
Review
The Upside to Religious Obsolescence
Why a post-Christian generation might be the ripest for revival.
The Key Lesson of My Book: Don’t Underestimate ‘Deep Culture’
Christian Smith responds to CT’s reviews of Why Religion Went Obsolete.
The Bulletin
Is Religion Violent? With Tal Howard
The Bulletin welcomes the new week with headline commentary and a conversation with author Tal Howard.
Review
Religious Violence Has Nothing on Secular Violence
People have killed in the name of faith. But the bloodier record belongs to regimes that tried blotting it out.