New Data on American ’Religiosity,’ Will AI Be the End of Work?, Digital Necromancy, and the Education Crisis

New polls on Christianity show mixed results. Elon Musk suggests AI will end work, and test results are indicating a crisis in education in America.

Recommendations

Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life by David Bahnsen

Segment 1 – State of the Church

• Anthony Bradley X post

• Gallup: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World

• Rod Dreher Substack: Men & The Rise Of Orthodoxy In America

Segment 2 – The End of Work?

• Elon Musk X post

• The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success by Ross Douthat

• Presence in the Modern World by Jacques Ellul

• Breakpoint: Evaluating the "Kirk Effect"

Segment 3 – Crisis in Education

• The Atlantic: 'A Recipe for Idiocracy'

• Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good by Steven Garber

• The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis

• The International Alliance for Christian Education (IACE)

______________________

November 29 is the last day to save up to 50% on CCNC 2026 registration! Register at colsonconference.org.

Make a gift by December 31 to help us form families, churches, and schools in the Christian worldview in 2026! Thanks to a generous grant, your gift will be doubled, up to $500,000. Give today at colsoncenter.org/november.

Watch Truth Rising, now available at truthrising.com/colson.