millennials and “nones”
Why Americans are leaving their churches
By Jana Riess — December 1, 2022
(RNS) — For sociologist Stephen Bullivant, the question is why it took so long for the religious exodus to happen.
Millennials adopt digital worship, but not at the expense of IRL faith
By Kathryn Post — August 5, 2022
(RNS) — Forty-one percent of US respondents and 29% of Canadian respondents reported consuming religious or spiritual digital content at least once a month.
New teen Bible story book tells the old, old story in a new way
By Kathryn Post — November 10, 2021
(RNS) — The Bible: Enter Here uses irreverent humor to reimagine Bible stories for teens.
On LGBT and women’s equality, stark statistical reality is coming for white evangelicals
By Ryan Burge — August 7, 2020
(RNS) — As a social scientist who is also a pastor, I’m sympathetic to the view that God can change young people's hearts on these hot-button issues. But I see no evidence of divine intervention in the data.
More young adults are leaving religion, but that’s not the whole story, say researchers
By Jana Riess — May 19, 2020
(RNS) — More young adults are leaving organized religion, but there are also some pockets of good news, even for mainline Protestant churches.
Postcards from the Protestant decline in America
By Jana Riess — December 10, 2019
(RNS) — A weekend trip to my hometown makes the statistics more personal (and painful): Only about 1 in 5 young adults were Protestant in 2018, compared with twice that when I was in high school.
Mormons still heavily committed to GOP despite Trump effect, according to Pew study
By Jana Riess — October 29, 2019
(RNS) — Seven in 10 U.S. Mormons still support the Republican Party, despite church members' much lower approval of the president.
The Enneagram as a protest against one-size-fits-all religion
By Jana Riess — August 15, 2019
The recent runaway success of the Enneagram among young American Christians can be attributed at least in part to a logical backlash we should have seen coming.
For millennials, mysticism shows a path to their home faiths
By Cathleen Falsani — April 16, 2019
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (RNS) — A growing number of millennials are finding that contemplative spirituality is a way to bridge the faith they grew up with and their yearning for deeper connections to God.
Why we should stop using the term religious ‘nones’
By Tara Isabella Burton — December 13, 2018
(RNS) — Most of America's religiously unaffiliated millennials are not so much religious 'nones' as they are religious 'manys.'
Religion declining in importance for many Americans, especially for Millennials
By Jana Riess — December 10, 2018
Americans are less religious than ever, especially if they're under 30 -- but even middle-aged Gen Xers are part of the trend away from religion, a new study shows.
Why millennials are really leaving religion (it’s not just politics, folks)
By Jana Riess — June 26, 2018
(RNS) — If the political alienation theory fully explained what’s going on in American religion, millennials would be leaving conservative religions in favor of ones that are liberal and LGBT-affirming. Instead, they're just exiting religion altogether.
Millennials: get over your faith phobia
By Aamir Hussain — May 24, 2018
(RNS) — Interfaith work isn’t about watering down our religions. It’s about building relationships so we can together serve others.
Religious ‘nones’ are gaining ground in America, and they’re worried about the economy, says new study
By Jana Riess — November 16, 2017
The unaffiliated "Nones" are the largest single religious group in America, edging out Protestants and Catholics, says a new study released today.
Why most people leave religion? They just ‘stop believing’
By Kimberly Winston — September 22, 2016
(RNS) In a gloomy forecast for organized religion, only seven percent of the 'nones' say they are looking for a religion.
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