Is God Scrolling Back?
What Gen Z’s TikTok faith, locker-room prayers, and late-night doubts tell us about a revival I didn’t expect to cry over a 30-second video. It was 11:42pm. I was tired, phone in hand, thumb on autopilot. And then a 19-year-old kid in a hoodie, sitting on his dorm floor, looked straight into the camera. No filters. No worship band. Just him, a Bible, and tears. “Hey,” he said. “If nobody told you today, God sees you.” I closed the app. I reopened it. And I stayed. Something is happening. And it’s not happening in the places we expected. The Feed Became an Altar For a decade we heard it: “Church is dying. Gen Z doesn’t care.” The stats said “nones.” The pews said empty. But the algorithm told a different story. In 2026, faith isn’t waiting for Sunday. It’s showing up at 2am on your For You page. A girl in Lagos doing a 60-second prayer over coffee. A college athlete in Texas pointing to the sky after a game, then posting the verse that got...