{"id":1910722,"date":"2023-04-06T12:11:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T16:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gods-not-done-with-our-country-the-faith-based-boom-in-new-media\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T12:12:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T16:12:16","slug":"gods-not-done-with-our-country-the-faith-based-boom-in-new-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gods-not-done-with-our-country-the-faith-based-boom-in-new-media\/","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s \u2018Not Done With Our Country\u2019: The Faith-Based Boom In New Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgods-not-done-with-our-country-the-faith-based-boom-in-new-media%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1910722&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Faith-based content is increasingly becoming popular across various forms of media, including television series, podcasts, apps, and films, and has been moving towards the mainstream. The success of these platforms is particularly surprising given that faith and religiosity, according to polls, are on the decline in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenal success of the series \u201cThe Chosen\u201d exemplifies the boom in faith-based content. This series has brought in $10 million from donors and has amassed an estimated 100 million viewers worldwide across Seasons 1 and 2, with views totaling over 440 million. \u201cJesus Revolution,\u201d a film starring Kelsey Grammer that was released earlier this year and grossed over $50 million, is another example of the success of faith-based content. Similarly, the release of the Catholic meditation and prayer app \u201cHallow,\u201d which has connected millions of people for prayer, Scripture, and mediation, and facilitated over 175 million prayers worldwide, demonstrates the rise of faith-based media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBible in a Year,\u201d a podcast hosted by Mike Schmitz, has also gained significant traction. Schmitz launched the podcast in January 2021, and within 48 hours, it became the number one show on Apple Podcasts. The podcast now boasts half a billion views and consistently ranks #1 in Apple Podcast subgroups.<\/p>\n<p>The reason behind the increased popularity of faith-based content is multifaceted. Firstly, the entertainment value of these platforms is increasingly competitive, with quality rivaling that of secular content. Secondly, a large audience of American Christians who want this type of content now have independent production houses catering to their needs outside of Hollywood, where traditional gatekeeping of content creation has been the norm.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, our cultural moment is drawing more interest towards faith-based content, with many people searching for answers or grappling with a sense of loss of a biblical worldview. Fr. Mike articulated that \u201cthere\u2019s this sense and this hunger in people that says, not only do I want to understand life, I want to understand reality, but also I want to understand what God has to say about this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBible in a Year\u201d host Schmitz said, people crave the rawness and authenticity of Biblical stories and scriptures, which is what sets his podcast apart. He believes that there has not been this much interest in faith-based content for decades, but this moment presents \u201csigns of hope\u2026that God\u2019s not done. He\u2019s not done with our culture. He\u2019s not done with our country. He\u2019s not done with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The success of faith-based content is a welcome development, particularly for millions of American Christians who have been demanding quality and vibrant programming that reflects their beliefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems whichever medium you turn to \u2014 from films to podcasts to apps to television series \u2014 faith-based content is moving into the mainstream and climbing the charts. Ironically, this is happening at a time when polling shows faith and religiosity declining in the U.S. The numbers tell the story. Take \u201cThe Chosen,\u201d for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1910723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7446,6548,6412,10387,14916,4188],"class_list":["post-1910722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-not","tag-boom","tag-country","tag-faith-based","tag-gods","tag-media"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1910723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}