Reformation: How Christianity is Changing and How it Should Change
It doesn’t seem possible to engage on Medium for very long before concluding that Christianity is in its dying days. Not only do a great many in our culture believe that this 2000 year old faith is quickly fading, but quite a few have their shovels at the ready to bury it.
I understand a number of the reasons. But, one of my last posts featured information that shows Christianity is not dying. It is in fact in a virtual tie for Islam as the fastest growing religion and the numbers are increasing. Most religions grow through demographics — children raised in the faith — but Christianity supplements that with conversion. The more conservative, evangelical and fundamentalist versions are growing most rapidly today outside the US.
But Christianity in the West and in the US in particular is in crisis. Some believers would say that the emergence of a radical and fundamentalist form of leftwing politics and its dominance in traditional media is responsible. “Wokism” is the problem in this view. From the left perspective blame might be placed on Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and others associated with the unfortunately-named Moral Majority who made a concerted effort to use votes to gain more power in the halls of government. Blending rightwing politics with Christian faith has made the faith toxic for many. They…
