Welcome to the Conversations, That Matter podcast where we are forging a bold Christian vision for America.

I'm your host, John Harris, and we have a subject today that will be of interest to

all of you, because we are going to talk about whether or not the United States of America

is in the midst of a religious revival or a Christian awakening, especially regarding

young men, millennials and Gen Z men. You see all the headlines, you've heard the testimonies, you are likely, if you listen to

this podcast within a group of Christians excited about the possibility of a religious

commitment increase in the United States.

And I don't want to temper that in ways that make

you not excited. I do want you to understand what is actually going on, though. And I have really

tried to understand this for the last two or three years. Because there is

something happening. I just don't know that it's being diagnosed in the right way. So I'm going to

give you my two cents on it. But I also want to get into the data. I want to show you what's driving

this narrative, why people are saying this. And it's not just Christians

that are saying this. I was at a Q&A at Princeton Seminary last December. And at that particular

Q&A, which was mostly attended by liberals, I was asked a few different times and a few different ways about the young people coming

back to the church. And I talked about it because there is a sense in which that's happening,

but I don't know that it is understood well what that represents and to what extent it is

happening. And that's what we're going to dive into.

The liberals that don't like Christian quote unquote fundamentalism or in their mind,

they think of that as some kind of a radical, let's bomb abortion clinics kind of sect.

In our minds, we're thinking of people who actually believe what the Bible says,

not people who bomb abortion clinics, obviously,

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