We've got a December acting run down.

Mark.

Yeah.

You don't like the hype?

No, I'm here for it.

My coffee hasn't kicked in yet.

It's December. Yes, it is.

2025. Christmas is almost here. Yep. This month, we're talking about all the things that we're talking about Action Rundown.

We're talking about very little this month. The reason for the season is not Acton Institute events.

No, we're taking it easy for the first time, I think, since we've started Rundown.

I think this is the first time we've had a month where it's like, there's not a whole lot to tell you.

There is a whole lot going on the website, though.

That's true.

The fall 2025, Religion and Liberty, we released the print magazine on a schedule

sort of like four times a year, and then what we'll do is we'll trickle out things from

those print issues on the website.

There were a couple things that I wanted to draw listeners' attention to that I thought

were particularly good that came out.

There's American Religion by the Numbers by Miles Smith, who's a professor of history at Hillsdale College.

And it's a book review of his, a review of the American religious landscape by Ryan Burge, who's like a great sort of American religious demographer.

And the book is basically like, what is the state of American religion today?

What are the trends?

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