Barna’s Report Just Confirmed What Black Folks Already Knew — But Will the Church Finally Listen?

Barna’s latest research is trying to get us to once again take stock of the shifting landscape of faith. It tells us that Americans are…

Barna’s latest research is trying to get us to once again take stock of the shifting landscape of faith. It tells us that Americans are spiritually open, but they aren’t looking to the Church for answers. That people crave peace, healing, and growth more than they crave belonging to an institution. That trust in religious leaders is eroding. That faith isn’t about absolute certainty, but about making meaning.

But Barna is still trying to retrofit these findings into a framework that keeps Christian supremacy intact. The subtext of their report isn’t just, “The Church needs to listen more.” It’s “How do we change the way we proselytize so we can still be the ones in control?”

Christian supremacy isn’t just about exclusion—it’s about control.

It’s the belief that one way is the way. That Jesus is the only way—not because that’s necessarily what he said, but because that’s how those invested in hegemony and power have chosen to interpret it.