Following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, there was a surge in social media posting referred to as “the Charlie effect.”

People who were returning to churches from which they had stepped away and people who were planning to step inside a church for the first time in their lives all posted on social media.

The amazing number of these posts led many Christian commentators to describe the trend with a joyful word: revival.

To point to a Christian revival is a hopeful perspective. The decline of Christianity throughout the world has been devastating for many formerly great societies, especially in the West, that are now plagued by nihilism: the sense that life and the world around us have little to no meaning.

In the United States in particular, numerou

See Full Page