Church & Culture Podcast CCP164: On Culture in 2025
Sep 5, 2025
Join a lively discussion on the current cultural climate, its impact on local churches, and how to adapt in a post-Christian world. Discover insights from the Pew Religious Landscape Study and explore the lasting changes brought on by the pandemic. Get a glimpse of how early Christians navigated culture and learn parenting tips for Generation Alpha. Plus, intriguing previews of interviews with thought leaders and authors tackle why traditional religion has waned. It's a resource-rich conversation for engaging today's world.
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Conference Purpose: Insight Plus Action
- The Church and Culture Conference exists to bring deep cultural insight and practical church response together.
- Its goal is to show both 'signs of the times' and 'what the church should do.'
Pew RLS: A Massive, Underread Study
- The Pew Religious Landscape Survey is unusually large and consequential, covering 35,000 Americans across two years.
- Its findings produced two major headlines, but the second headline was underreported and important for churches to understand.
The Pandemic As A Hinge Moment
- The pandemic was a hinge moment that reshaped social habits, trust, and information environments.
- Hyper-individualism and atomization emerged as lasting effects churches must address.
