Greetings and welcome to the Daily Article podcast from Denison Forum.

Today is Tuesday, November the 25th, 2025, and today's daily article is written by friend

and cultural theologian, Dr. Jim Denison.

As we focus on gratitude this Thanksgiving week, let's consider a recent article in the Atlantic

that offers surprising encouragement about evangelical Christianity. Spencer Cornaber reports

signs of a true revival have been piling up lately. After years of decline, church attendance

has leveled and might even be climbing. TikTokick-Tock brims with Christian core aesthetics and

treadwives. An administration whose millennial vice president converted to Catholicism just six years ago

is pushing explicitly theological policy crusades. And the musical middle age has gone mega-churchy, filling the Billboard Hot 100

with country-tinged redemption tales and actual worship songs. End quote. The rest of the article

focuses on a new album by Rosalia, a singer Cornaber describes as a Catalan superstar. In the album,

she, quote, adopts the sound and ambition of a classical oratorio

to mirror the modern quest for salvation

in all its thrilling and frustrating contours.

Corneiber writes,

The question of what we believe about our souls

and what that belief demands

is more serious than lifestyle

fads or partisan politics allow for. I completely agree. However, Corneiber then concludes

embracing that search, Rosalia Preaches, can be as significant as having an answer. This is an assertion

we need to discuss today for reasons that far transcend

the article that asserts it. In his book, Why We Believe Finding Meaning in Uncertain Times,

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