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Is God Scrolling Back?

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  What Gen Z’s TikTok faith, locker-room prayers, and late-night doubts tell us about a revival I didn’t expect to cry over a 30-second video.   It was 11:42pm. I was tired, phone in hand, thumb on autopilot. And then a 19-year-old kid in a hoodie, sitting on his dorm floor, looked straight into the camera. No filters. No worship band. Just him, a Bible, and tears.   “Hey,” he said. “If nobody told you today, God sees you.”   I closed the app. I reopened it. And I stayed.   Something is happening. And it’s not happening in the places we expected. The Feed Became an Altar For a decade we heard it: “Church is dying. Gen Z doesn’t care.”   The stats said “nones.” The pews said empty.   But the algorithm told a different story.   In 2026, faith isn’t waiting for Sunday. It’s showing up at 2am on your For You page. A girl in Lagos doing a 60-second prayer over coffee. A college athlete in Texas pointing to the sky after a game, then posting the verse t...

Surviving the Deconstruction Trend Without Losing Your Jesus

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  Surviving the Deconstruction Trend Without Losing Your Jesus What to do when the people who were supposed to represent Him became the reason you almost walked away                    Image Generated with Meta AI   Let's name the thing nobody wants to name. You didn't start questioning your faith because you read a Richard Dawkins book. You started questioning because of what's his name. The senior pastor. The one who prayed over your marriage. Who laid hands on your sick mother. Who stood behind that polished wooden pulpit every Sunday with tears in his eyes talking about integrity. Then you found out. Not gossip. Proof. The affair. The secret credit card. The way he manipulated the young couple into tithing their rent money while he flew first class to a "leadership conference" that was really a vacation. Or maybe it wasn't a pastor. Maybe it was your small group leader who preached against divorce and then left his wife and...