Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

With the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Well, according to the Catholic News Agency, over 10,000 people were baptized in France on Easter.

It's a 45% jump over last year, and it's especially notable given France's historically skeptical and secular society.

That reports in line with others from other parts of Europe as well,

where especially men seem to be returning to a faith that was until now largely rejected.

Even in the U.S., there's a renewed interest, again largely among young men, traditional religion.

For example, Eastern Orthodoxy.

Now, some are calling this a quote-unquote quiet revival without the kind of fanfare

often associated with revivalism. Glenn Scribner and Justin Breyerley in the UK and Gavin

Ortland in the U.S. have all been carefully chronicling the subtle growth. And they all seem

to agree that something is happening,

though it's not clear whether it's genuine revival or just part of a wider vibe shift,

as the cultural pendulum swings away from an overplayed woke moment.

20 years ago, there was a vibe of new atheism, led by Chris Hitchin, Sam Harris, and Richard Dawkins.

And at the same time, there was a new Calvinism ushered in by Tim Keller, Sam Harris, and Richard Dawkins. And at the same time,

there was a new Calvinism ushered in by Tim Keller, John Piper, and the Gospel Coalition.

As different as these movements were, they provided a kind of intellectual structure for a world

that was unhinged by 9-11 and by the threats of global terrorism. It's not unlike what we saw

with the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s,

which came in the wake of the hippie age, Vietnam, Watergate, and the decadence of the me decade.

In reaction, millions of Americans turned to faith family and freedom,

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