The Wired Word for 04/19/2026  🔗 **Source:** [The Wired Word for 04/19/2026]() 📄 **Full text:** ![[Full Document Contents/Articles/The Wired Word for 04192026.md|The Wired Word for 04/19/2026 by The Wired Word]] ## Highlights - lps explain a key reason this debate is so unsettled: It's entirely possible for a faith to experience revival and decline simultaneou ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kp9hrst1ew4a3zdfjjddyrkc)) - ere baptized. "It would take a huge increase in adult baptisms to get anywhere near the numbers we ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kp9ht8kwvveszrf7c3hb1whp)) - tor Lawrence Jones, "We’ve seen an epidemic of loneliness. It's a basic human fact. People need community. Today, they're findi ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kp9hv6vtpf4z2a10ekm4ewsc)) - the church. This departure has had extraordinary effects, writes Lauren Jackson in *The New York Times*: "It changed how people gather, vote, marry, volunteer and find meaning in their lives." These changes are profound, and they cannot be reversed by simply returning to worship. Real co ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kp9hwfzcvnb9xvkf737bb94y)) - ished and feel welcomed and at home. That would cause a real Catholic revival." ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kp9hy0q20exmcs4yrhj2vm3r)) - Lauren Jackson, host of the *Believing* newsletter, says that it is "important to recognize that something is, indeed, shifting in the culture." Silicon Valley billionaires are embracing church, Hollywood is making religious movies again, and pop stars are singing about faith. "All of that is pretty new, and would have been hard to imagine even 10 years ago," she concludes. "Before we declare 'revival,' though, we're going to need more data." ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kp9hz9qkv16hdpqecqsp06x2)) - 1. Where do you see signs of religious revival today? Where do you see evidence of decline? How can both be present simultaneously in a particular church? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kp9hpef3v11nf9a2bweesvaj)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - The psalm makes clear that God's word is the key to religious revival. The writer prays to God, "Revive me according to your word." He sees God's word as a source of strength, and makes the commitment, "I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your ordinances before me. … I run the way of your commandments, for you enlarge my understanding" (vv. 30, 32). ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kp9hpefsqpcpg351gyhz0wpz)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted - **Questions:** How would you describe your own experience of being born from above, born anew, or born again? Where do you see the Spirit working for renewal in the church today? How do you, in your daily life, express your belief in Jesus? What difference does it make? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kp9hpegj3sbb4f2842wxvaer)) - Tags: 👻 ai highlighted