Easter

The excellent Archbishop Cranmer at http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/ has thoughts on Easter, not surprisingly.
Notable is the quote from Lord Salisbury (quote of a quote of a quote, actually, but this is the internet) in which he says that you can't have the Christian ethic without the Christian theology. It does out within three generations.
Generally that's correct, the first generation has both the theology, the Christian "Identity" and the Christian ethic, the second generation has the identity and the ethic, the last one wants to keep the ethic but doesn't know why.
So then we have people paying lip service to the value of charity, forbearance, duty to family and neighbours, but not really knowing why they should suffer for that. The result is the ME-ME-ME generation and instant gratification of material desires.
This is found in Judaism too. One generation has the belief, the structure of faith and the ethic, three generations later there'll be nothing left, once the original belief has gone.

But: revival is possible, even inevitable. It just won't be the same old bottles into which the new wine is poured.