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Is there a religious reversal among America's youngest adults?
New Pew: Youngest adults (18–22) are more religious than those just a few years older (23-26):
✅ Attend services: 41% vs. 27%
✅ Pray daily: 34% vs. 26%
✅ Religion very important: 36% vs. 27%
Their attendance even tops the national average (33%).
Julia Yost retweeted
.@juliadyost challenges nostalgia for pre-Christian sexual ethics
Julia Yost retweeted
"Sorkin should be happy. He tried to make a plucky underdog story when, in fact, his side won. The NGOs who spun up “misinformation” as a global threat got everything they ever wanted and more."
@herandrews reviews The Social Reckoning.
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Julia Yost retweeted
Fascinating exchange in @juliadyost’s Interesting Times with an “ethical” pornographer.
You can turn “raunch” dial to 11, but it’s not going to erase neuroticism or the risk of intimacy.
ALT But is this true? It seems to me that most of the messaging to girls and women is sex-positive, and pornography certainly has been normalized to the extent that it's been widely adopted. So who needs to hear the good news of sexual liberation? Lust: I don't agree. Sex-positive messages — yes, some of them we have. Empowerment messages — yes, some of them are out there. But at the same time, I still see so many women worrying about their own sexuality, about what they project to the world, how they are dressing, what kind of sex they want to have, what kind of sex they accept having.
Julia Yost retweeted
In which @juliadyost and adult filmmaker Erika Lust demonstrate the variety of feminist thought on pornography.
Also, it’s pretty fun. Gift link below!
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Julia Yost retweeted
First Things senior editor Julia Yost guest-hosts an episode of ‘Interesting Times.’ Be sure to listen!
I was honored to guest-host an episode of ‘Interesting Times.’ I sought common ground with a feminist pornographer.
A few points of difference emerged, too.
nytimes.com/2026/10/29/opini…
I was honored to guest-host an episode of ‘Interesting Times.’ I sought common ground with a feminist pornographer.
A few points of difference emerged, too.
nytimes.com/2026/10/29/opini…
Julia Yost retweeted
I was just prevented from voting at my NYC polling location -- where I've voted in multiple past elections -- unless I filled out multiple pages of new paperwork (of a sort I filed several years ago) to accompany my ballot. I offered my ID for the poll workers to look at instead, and they said they're not allowed to look at IDs. #Democracy2026
Julia Yost retweeted
Ross is right about the vibrancy of evangelicalism. But a distinction needs to be made. The strongest currents of Protestantism in the US are Wesleyan, not Calvinist, Pentecostal rather than Presbyterian. When intellectual Protestants wax triumphant about an “evangelical century,” they are celebrating the success of a form of Christianity that differs in significant ways from their own.
I was raised in a non-denominational evangelical church. When I became “young, restless, and Reformed,” my parents were alarmed. They asked the pastor how to handle my evident defection from the faith. Whatever I believed, they thought, it wasn’t true Christianity.
Intellectual Protestants—the kind who attend Anglican churches or imbibe high-proof Calvinist texts—represent traditions of belief that have helped shape this country. But in terms of sociology and doctrine, they are alienated from the most vigorous contemporary expressions of American Christianity.
For all the buzz around a ‘Catholic century,’ evangelicalism is the denomination best placed to thrive in contemporary America. thefp.com/p/ross-douthat-our…
“Beyond the intelligentsia …”: How is this not replicating the arguments it purports to refute
Ross's latest @TheFP: "Beyond the intelligentsia, the form of Christianity that’s most adapted to late-modern America is clearly not the Church of Rome. It’s evangelical Protestantism. The vibes of a Catholic moment are real enough, but evangelicalism’s resilience is our era’s more fundamental fact." thefp.com/p/ross-douthat-our…
