This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

PART I (16:2 - 16:2) Are Americans Abandoning Religious Belief? Rethinking the Research on the Rise of Religious ‘Nones’ — It’s More Complex Than You Think

• Religion Is Dying? Don’t Believe It by Wall Street Journal (Byron R. Johnson and Jeff Levin)
• The Decline of Non-Orthodox American Judaism by Wall Street Journal (Roberta Rosenthal Kwall)
• False Hope on the Future of American Religion? by Wall Street Journal (David Spadafora)

PART II (21:38 - 21:38) Does Freud Explain Cancel Culture? A Steady State Understanding of Moral Judgments in a Secularizing World

• Freud Explains Cancel Culture by Wall Street Journal (Andrew Hartz)

PART III (26:30 - 26:30) 60 Years Of the New Left: The Port Huron Statement and the Transformation of America — (And the Newer Left Leaving It Behind)

• The New Left and the radical transformation of America by WORLD Opinions (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.)
• Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society