90th Anniversary Conference

PRESENTATIONS & HANDOUTS

KEYNOTES

General Sessions on
Thursday, November 13 and Saturday, November 15, 2025

OPENING KEYNOTE

Culture World + Church

Presenters: Zac Davis & Ashley McKinless

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Davis & McKinless:
What We're Seeing and Hearing

Explore more deeply the topics in “What We Are Seeing and Hearing the World of Faith, Culture, and Church" with the resources below:

Research on Religious Revival

Read the Pew Research report, “Religion Holds Steady in America,” which analyzes their polls and other high quality research studies to show that there is no clear evidence of a religious revival among young adults. Read the Report at https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/12/08/religion-holds-steady-in-america/

Read “Perspective: What the data really says about religious revival and Gen Z” (Desert News) https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2026/01/05/religious-revival-america-church-closings-gen-z

The Catholic Church on Immigration

Read the 2025 U.S. Bishops’ “Special Message” on Immigration at: https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/us-bishops-issue-special-message-immigration-plenary-assembly-baltimore

Read more about the Church and immigration at: https://www.usccb.org/committees/migration.

Learn more about immigration and what can be done at https://justiceforimmigrants.org.

Synodality

Read “The Marks of a Synodal Church” Charles Jason Gordon. America Magazine, March 2025. [Download the PDF Now] or view it on the America website at https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/03/13/archbishop-gordon-synodal-church-250115.

Read the final 2025 report from the Synod, “Final Document of the XVI Assembly,” at https://www.synod.va/en/news/final-document-of-the-xvi-assembly.html.

Digital Engagement

Read “End the Phone-based Childhood Now.” Jonathan Haidt, author of the Anxious Generation writes that the environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development. [Download the PDF Now]

Read about Jean Twenge’s research in this New York Times article, “She Started the Debate About Kids and Phones. Now She Wants to End It” - [Download the PDF Now] or view it at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/well/family/jean-twenge-social-media-screens-teens.html.

Check out Jean Twenge’s new book, 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World at https://cdn.penguin.co.uk/dam-assets/books/9781785046407/9781785046407-sample.pdf