millennial faith

‘Shul shopping’ in New York: A Jewish millennial’s two years of wandering

By Tori Luecking — March 29, 2023
(RNS) — Our search for a spiritual home.

Brittany Muller combines Christianity and the cards in ‘The Contemplative Tarot’

By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 13, 2022
(RNS) — ‘The Contemplative Tarot’ explains the history of tarot and gives some examples of how Christians can incorporate the cards into their spiritual practice.

White Gen X and millennial evangelicals are losing faith in the conservative culture wars

By Terry Shoemaker — June 22, 2021
(The Conversation) — Growing numbers of young evangelicals and 'Exvangelicals' are pro-LGBTQ, support #BlackLivesMatter – or are fed up altogether with mixing faith and politics.

Faith in numbers: Behind the gender difference of nonreligious Americans

By Ryan Burge — February 17, 2021
(The Conversation) — Men are in general more likely than women to describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or nothing in particular.

Gen Z is lukewarm about religion, but open to relationships, study shows

By Jana Riess — December 21, 2020
(RNS) — Religious affiliation among Gen Z Americans continues its steady decline, but affiliation isn’t everything.

Witch season provides a deep look into the millennial mindset

By Tara Isabella Burton — October 10, 2019
(RNS) — The witch trend says something about the current generation's dependence on technology to fashion selves we can identify with and love.

Building a new church community in a culture that has forgotten how

By Christian Piatt — July 22, 2019
(RNS) — Today’s young people are more connected than ever, but they carry a lot of baggage about the idea of walking through the doors of a church.

Millennial Catholics go ‘biking for babies,’ raise funds for crisis pregnancy clinics

By Eric Berger — July 16, 2019
ST. LOUIS (RNS) — Wearing blue and yellow Biking for Babies cycling jerseys and traveling mostly through red states, the 23 riders, the majority of them Catholic and college-age, said they often encountered people who support their mission.

Jains gather in California with the next generation on their minds

By Paul O'Donnell — July 10, 2019
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The ancient Indian faith has seen tremendous growth in the U.S. over the past two decades, largely through immigration. Now the challenge is sustaining the faith's numbers among millennials and Gen Z.

Can witches and consumer culture coexist?

By Tara Isabella Burton — June 4, 2019
(RNS) — As long as millennials adapt rituals and spells as a force for change, companies will hawk those rituals and spells to preserve the status quo.

‘Harry Potter and the Sacred Text’ creates spiritual experience for fans of secular series

By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 26, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (RNS) — The chance to discuss 'Harry Potter' from a spiritual standpoint is what brought hundreds of fans to a live taping of 'Harry Potter and the Sacred Text' last week in a sold-out auditorium at the Indianapolis Public Library’s Central Library.

The hollowing out of American religion

By Mark Silk — April 22, 2019
(RNS) — The traditional pattern of young adults joining churches after they get married and have children has not been holding true.

Catholics are evangelizing on campus, trying to bring back the ‘nones’

By Katherine Dugan — April 8, 2019
(The Conversation) — Some 36 percent of those without religious affiliation report having grown up Catholic.

How 15 millennial coed Catholics live in unity in a New York City brownstone

By Gina Ryder — April 3, 2019
NEW YORK (RNS) — Even in an expensive city that breeds unusual living arrangements, this is not your average New York roommate situation.

Creative duo reimagines the Bible for a visual generation

By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil — March 18, 2019
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Made to attract digital natives, the new magazine-style Bibles redouble the decontextualization of scripture that began online.
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