Review: Defiant Hope, Active Love
In “Defiant Hope, Active Love: What Young Adults Are Seeking in Places of Work, Faith, and Community,” scholars investigate how faith communities can be more hospitable to the next generation of Christians.
Meet Gen Z’s Proselytizing Presbyterian Reformer
Richard Ackerman, a 21-year-old Presbyterian convert and conservative activist in the church, is the contemporary televangelist Zoomers can’t stop watching.
Mennonites Confront Climate Change With Generation Z
This issue A Public Witness pulls up a chair at the Mennonite Church USA’s Youth & Young Adult Climate Summit in order to discover new ways for all of us to meaningfully engage in creation care, and to do so in full partnership with the
Fewer than Half of Americans Now Belong to a Church or Other House of Worship
Ask Americans if they believe in God and most will say yes. But a growing number have lost faith in organized religion. For the first time since the late 1930s, fewer than half of Americans say they belong to a church, synagogue, or mosque, according
Survey: UK Teens More Likely than Millennials to Believe in God
A new poll of Britain’s Generation Z finds older adolescents and younger adults are more likely to believe in God than are millennials, the demographic ahead of them. No parallel trend has been identified in the United States.
Pastors Feeling Political Pushback from Both Sides — & Then There’s the Younger Generation
Some pastors simply can’t win for losing when trying to navigate the politics consuming many American churches. Read full piece
Millennial, Gen Z Christians Support Missions — with Reservations
A global pandemic has made the basic acts of travel and face-to-face contact with others — essential to cross-cultural missions — difficult or impossible until further notice. Such is the present. What’s next? Read full piece
Is the Rise of the Nones Slowing? Scholars Say Maybe
For the past 25 years, the number of Americans claiming no religion has steadily ballooned as more and more people quit church, synagogue or mosque and openly acknowledged being a “none.” But that growth may be leveling off.