It's Friday, May the 16th, 2025.

Welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article podcast.

Today's daily article is written by our co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison, and narrated by yours truly, Chris Elkins.

Evangelicals, like me, have been on the losing side of the culture wars for decades, the sexual

revolution, rise of LGBTQ ideology, legalization of abortion and same-sex marriage, proliferation

of online pornography, legitimization of prostitution and polygamy, escalation of adultery and divorce, the list goes on.

But things are changing.

In his 2024 book, The Third Awakening, Eric Kaufman, a professor of politics at the University of Buckingham in England,

described his damaging personal experiences with the

liberalism and cancel culture of quote unquote woke ideology. A year later, he is able to write a new

Wall Street Journal article titled Welcome to the Post-Progressive Political Era. Dr. Kaufman documents the retreat of diversity, equity, and inclusion, D.E.I mandates a, quote,

substantial rightward shift among young people from 2021 to 2024, end quote, and a rising backlash

against transgender medicine and men and women's sports.

In addition, declining birth rates, crises in youth mental health,

and rising deaths of despair show that cultural progressivism is, quoting Kaufman again,

part of the problem rather than the solution.

Then he asks, we are leaving the age of progressive confidence,

what will replace it? This question is obviously critical to our national future. You and I can

answer it in the only way that changes souls and transforms culture for the glory of God.

Billy Graham once warned, Christianity to many people has faded into mere form,

lost its relevance to life,

and holds no central allegiance in our lives.

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