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2025 has been a somber year with a rise in politically motivated violence–including the public assassination of Charlie Kirk–and heightened tensions and conflict around the world. 2025 has also been an encouraging year with a comeback of creation order (i.e., women’s sports and the Skrmetti case allowing states to take cross-sex hormones and transition surgeries off the medical menu for minors), a renewed opportunity for and interest in church-state partnership, and the sparks of spiritual renewal. Here are five lessons from 2025.
Key Sources/Interviews:
- Os Guinness – Our Civilizational Moment: The Waning of the West and the War of the Worlds
- Indiana State Comptroller Elise Nieshalla – The National Debt Crisis and How to Respond
- Birjan Crispin – Gen Z, Gen Alpha, and Christian Citizenship
- Tim Goeglein – Stumbling Toward Utopia: How the 1960s Turned Into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream
- Andrew Walker – What Do I Say When
- Pastors and Politics; Review of Key 2025 SCOTUS Decisions
- Pew – Religion Holds Stead in America
- National Debt Clock