The Decline of Christianity in Public Life (with Brian Smith)

[Michie]

A new book by Protestant author Aaron Renn offers strategies of how to live in a culture where Christianity is viewed negatively

I welcome Brian Smith, senior program officer at the Liberty Fund and a contributing editor at Law & Liberty, and the author of a book, Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer.

We turn to an essay he's writing about a book that I have not read, so I depend upon Brian's presentation.

However, the book is compelling to me because it's about Christianity right now, Christianity between 1960 and right now, and what is to be done.

Publishing at Civitas Outlook, which is part of the Civitas Institute, University of Texas at Austin. Brian comes to Mr. Renn's argument in his new book about the positive, neutral, and negative worlds of Christianity.

The author is Aaron Renn, and the book is Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture.

We begin, however, with the need for definition. What is it that Mr. Renn believes is a positive world, a neutral world, and a negative world for Christianity over the last 60 plus years?

Watch the full conversation above, or listen to an audio version below:

Continued below.

The Decline of Christianity in Public Life (with Brian Smith)

A new book by Protestant author Aaron Renn offers strategies of how to live in a culture where Christianity is viewed negatively.

johnbatchelor.substack.com

 

[RileyG]

I believe a revival is stirring among the wind.

 

[timf]

There is another book, The Traditional Christian's Guide to the Family in Modern Times, that also bears on this topic. (free pdf)

https://christianpioneer.com/ebooks/traditional.pdf

 

[truthuprootsevil]

A new book by Protestant author Aaron Renn offers strategies of how to live in a culture where Christianity is viewed negatively

I welcome Brian Smith, senior program officer at the Liberty Fund and a contributing editor at Law & Liberty, and the author of a book, Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer.

We turn to an essay he's writing about a book that I have not read, so I depend upon Brian's presentation.

However, the book is compelling to me because it's about Christianity right now, Christianity between 1960 and right now, and what is to be done.

Publishing at Civitas Outlook, which is part of the Civitas Institute, University of Texas at Austin. Brian comes to Mr. Renn's argument in his new book about the positive, neutral, and negative worlds of Christianity.

The author is Aaron Renn, and the book is Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture.

We begin, however, with the need for definition. What is it that Mr. Renn believes is a positive world, a neutral world, and a negative world for Christianity over the last 60 plus years?

Watch the full conversation above, or listen to an audio version below:

Continued below.

The Decline of Christianity in Public Life (with Brian Smith)

A new book by Protestant author Aaron Renn offers strategies of how to live in a culture where Christianity is viewed negatively.

johnbatchelor.substack.com

Bible Gateway passage: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 - King James Version

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means...

www.biblegateway.com

Past few centuries members of Christianity here in America has been declining and rising, I believe it's on the decline again, but scripture tells us there will come a falling away first.

Decline of Christianity in the U.S. Has Slowed, May Have Leveled Off

After years of decline, the U.S. Christian share now shows signs of leveling off. The new Religious Landscape Study explores trends in identity, beliefs and practices. Pew Research Center.

www.pewresearch.org

 

[DragonFox91]

It was all just a mask & people faking it.

It's always only ever been a remnant

 

[public hermit]

It was all just a mask & people faking it.

It's always only ever been a remnant

I wouldn't put it that way, but I do wonder something along those lines. Perhaps there's a trend, an inverse proportion in any given population in which Christians live, when it comes to the quality of Christian in relation to the quantity of Christians. Roughly, as the quantity increases in any population, the quality tends to decrease, and when the quantity decreases, the quality tends to increase. Surely, in those populations where Christianity is the majority, there are benefits to being Christians that are simply social or cultural (political?) and might not have anything to do with faith and following Christ. Perhaps saying people are "faking it" is a bit rough, since most people think they are doing the right thing (or believe they are sincere in what they do), but certainly their "Christianity" has it's source in culture and societal benefit. Take all that away, where Christians are a minority, and it would seem their reasons for their "Christianity" are more likely rooted in faith and following Christ since that huge chuck of cultural/societal benefits are no longer an option. I have no data for any of that so grain of salt.