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White Horse Inn

Secularism Is Dying. What's Next?

White Horse Inn

Sola Media

Religion & Spirituality, History, Christianity

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Is Europe moving from a post-Christian to post-secular culture? Magnus Persson, a Swedish Lutheran pastor and former Pentecostal church planter, joins Michael Horton and Bob Hiller to discuss how secularism is collapsing under the weight of its own emptiness, leaving a spiritual vacuum that Christianity can fill. 

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even more people to grow in knowing God and seeing everything in his light.

0:52.9

I think that many, many people are looking for stability and relocating the center of where

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can a gracious God be found, exhausted by the chase of new highs and feelings and experiences

1:09.9

inside the chambers of the heart.

1:13.2

The era of subjective beliefs and subjective experiences is gone,

1:20.1

and you're looking for objective anchors for the faith.

1:23.7

So I see that happens everywhere I travel, so it's not typical Swedish.

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Yeah, yeah.

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For me, it was, you know, Jesus is saying the word, what does it help a man if he wins the whole world but have lost his soul? I experienced that in the midst of success, you know,

1:42.0

in Swedish terms, not American megachurch.

1:44.5

But you were well known in Sweden.

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Yeah.

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We had relative success with our church and we did church plans.

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And in the midst of that, I was feeling like I was trying to win the world, but at the

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