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

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

Well, perhaps the most significant trend of the last decade and faith in religion has been the rise of the nuns.

Now, by now, most people understand that there's never been a risk of an invasion of Catholic women and habits.

But rather, this is about

the notable increase, especially among the young, of the religious unaffiliated, often marked by a

rejection of church and clear doctrine, the nuns were the fastest growing religious demographic in

America. But that trend is now over. In fact, while there are still plenty of cynical and skeptical young people rejecting the baggage of their Christian upbringings, there's now also a notable group of spiritually curious young people who are rejecting the baggage of secularism. That's especially the case in the United Kingdom, where very few young people have any Christian baggage to reject,

since they never went to church in the first place. But they're now quite interested. And at the

same time, there's this growing list of prominent atheists and skeptics who changed their tune

about Christianity. Some of the very same prominent voices of the 90s, who told us that religion poisons everything

and that God's a delusion, now proclaim the importance of faith for the flourishing of society

and for acquiring meaning in life. Others, like American philosopher and mathematician David

Berlinski and the new Truth Rising film, point to the damage that's been done to Western civilization by woke ideology.

As former deputy prime minister of Australia, John Anderson, puts it in the same film.

The West is now sputtering and dying because of all of these alternative fuels that we've been trying.

Now, recently, I interviewed podcaster and author Justin Breyerly about this phenomenon,

something that he has called the surprising rebirth of belief in God. Here's what he had to say.

It is a bit of a mixed bag what's going on. You described a vibe shift in the US, and I think we've

been seeing a similar-ish kind of vibe shift in various quarters here.

And part of it is people looking for an identity, you know, something that they can sort of

bed down in. And for a lot of people, I think they're rediscovering in a sense what you could

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