Arizona Christian University

And this is a big issue for the church.

George Barna just did some surveying work through his work at Arizona Christian University, and 51% of people who would identify in the traditional way in which we identify a born-again Christian, 51% said, and I quote, AI gets me.

Oops.

That's the church responding.

So thank you for that.

And speaking of challenges, that's why your book is so important.

So let me go back to this finding of George Barna at Arizona Christian University with 51% of Christians saying AI gets me.

Therein lies the rub.

I was shocked at what I saw.

So Barna, you know the Barna group, and this is the Arizona Christian University.

It's the American Worldview Inventory of 2022.

It showed results concerning the worldview of Christian pastors.

And then out of high school, my brother went to Arizona and then he transferred to like a bunch of other schools.

But he's currently back in Arizona at Arizona Christian and he does long and triple jump there.

Nice.

Very good.

Many of these individuals that have a very profound impact on your life are down ballot.

And so share with us what you found by working with the Barna Research Groups, and actually working with George Barna in particular, I should say, over there at the Arizona Christian University, because we find a very significant percentage of evangelical Christians do not vote all the way down the ballot, do they?

No, they don't.

We have the same anecdotal stories and examples that you've been citing, you know, Virginia House that was determined literally by a drawing, a piece of paper out of a fishbowl.

So I read some shocking studies this week from the Cultural Research Center out of Arizona Christian University.

And they did some studies with the Christian organization Barna, the Barna group, on the church in America.

And after polling nearly 18,000 Christians across the country in 2025, here's some of the things that they found, some startling statistics.

It's not just about voting, and it's not just about being engaged in what we think of as full-time ministry, but really using our vocations to have a complete view of citizenship and be responsible in all aspects of government and in these vocations.

Yeah, and if you look at what George Barna has has released about kids and their biblical worldview out at Arizona Christian is that only about 4% of young people have a biblical worldview.

That should alarm us.

We've got to play the long game in this.

Joining us now is Dr. George Barna.

He's director of research at Arizona Christian University's Cultural Research Center and a senior research fellow at the Family Research Council's Center for Biblical Worldview.

George, welcome back to Washington Watch.

Always great to have you with us.

I had none of that experience.

But I think about if that number was out there, and not a condemnation of the universities or the colleges, but if the number was out there, and I don't know what the number is at Arizona State University or U of A or NAU or GCU or Arizona Christian, I have no idea what those numbers are.

But if they were out there for young women to see, do you think it might change their willingness to be vulnerable? to put themselves in situations.

Because I don't ever want it to make it sound like I'm saying the girls are at fault.