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Something Strange Is Happening To Gen Z - Isabel Brown - #1106

Explore episode Jun 4, 2026

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Has Religion Become Personal Branding?

At 1:51:40 · chapter starts 1:44:52

Chris questions whether the Catholic revival is genuine or lifestyle branding. Isabel plays the viral 'Sparkle Creed' as evidence of what over-secularized churches produce. Gen Z is rejecting progressive Christianity for unchanging doctrine.

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The Sparkle Creed: What Happens When the Church Tries Too Hard to Be Cool

Something Strange Is Happening To Gen Z - Isabel Brown - #1… · Jun 4, 2026 Religion & Spirituality

Churches tried to attract millennials by making services more like the secular world: smoke machines, pop music, informal theology. The result is congregations reciting the 'Sparkle Creed' — a rewrite of 2,000-year-old doctrine featuring Jesus's rainbow tunic and two dads. Gen Z is rejecting it hard.

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