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Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

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

Talbot, Church, Christianity, Christian, Culture, Biola, Sean Mcdowell, Religion & Spirituality, Scott Rae, Think Biblically

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week: UK Revival Claims Questioned: A new Pew Research study challenges recent claims of spiritual revival among young adults in the UK, suggesting that opt-in surveys may be misleading and random sampling shows Christian identification is actually declining, not increasing. Social Media Child Safety: Social media giants face a landmark legal case regarding child safety, raising important questions about platform accountability and the protection of minors online. Posthumous Sperm ...

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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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