PMW 2026-032 by Rod D. Martin
Gentry note: An excellent and encouraging article by Baptist theologian Rod Martin. (Please note the photo of a man’s muscular bicep. I would have used a photo of my own bicep, but I feared it would have been an illustration for amillennialism and the decline of Christianity.)
Rod Martin article:
One year ago, Pew showed the decline had ceased. Now, new data suggest the secular surge may be going into reverse — and young men are helping lead the turn.
Published by Rod Martin on April 26, 2026
The rumors of Christianity’s demise were not merely exaggerated. They may have been exactly backward.
A year ago, Pew Research Center released one of the largest surveys of American religion ever conducted, finding that after decades of decline, the Christian share of the country had stabilized. Christianity was no longer in freefall. The “Nones” — atheists, agnostics, and those who describe their religion as “nothing in particular” — had stopped their long march upward.
The secularization story every elite institution treated as inevitable had hit a wall.
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