Cultural Update: UK Revival Questioned; Child Safety on Social Media; Posthumous Sperm Retrieval
Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture
Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Is there a revival among young adults in the UK? |
| 0:05.2 | A new study brings clarity. |
| 0:07.8 | Does the Harry Potter generation need to grow up and rethink their politics? |
| 0:12.8 | Social media giants face a landmark case regarding child safety and families of slain Israeli |
| 0:19.6 | soldiers in Gaza are retrieving sperm from their bodies. |
| 0:23.5 | Is this ethical and a sign of what's yet to come? |
| 0:26.9 | These are the stories we'll discuss, and we'll also take some of your questions. |
| 0:31.1 | I'm your host, Sean McDowell. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm your co-host, Scott Ray. |
| 0:34.3 | This is the Think Biblically Weekly Cultural update brought to my Talp School Theology |
| 0:38.2 | Biola University. Scott, we've got some fun and bizarre stories this week to discuss. I'm really |
| 0:45.0 | eager. We can't make it up as good as it happens in real life. Oh, man, this last one in particular, |
| 0:52.2 | but I'm getting ahead of myself. This first one I think is really |
| 0:54.8 | timely because the last two or three years people have been talking about a revival or a so-called |
| 1:01.7 | revival in the UK and in the US. Especially. Yeah, and we've reported on it too. And we have. |
| 1:09.0 | We've covered it. And I've done talks on this. So this is an ongoing |
| 1:12.3 | theme that's really been a big piece of conversation in the church. Well, this week Pew Research released |
| 1:19.3 | an article saying that this narrative seems to be misleading that there's a resurgence among young |
| 1:26.5 | adults in spiritual interest. |
| 1:29.5 | So what they point towards is they kind of critique what are called opt-in studies. |
| 1:35.5 | And these are studies where people can choose to opt-in and sometimes get something positive |
| 1:40.5 | for doing so, maybe like a Starbucks card. |
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