millennials
Pew report: Older US Christians being quickly replaced by young ‘nones’
By Yonat Shimron — October 17, 2019
(RNS) — The latest survey shows Christians have declined by 12 percentage points over the past decade.
‘What Do You Believe Now?’ Film follows up with millennials 17 years later
By Emily McFarlan Miller — October 1, 2019
(RNS) — Filmmaker Sarah Feinbloom talked to Religion News Service about reconnecting with the millennials she interviewed 17 years ago and how their faith journeys mirror national trends.
Parenting after faith shift, progressive Christians look for new resources
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 13, 2019
(RNS) — Faith shifts can raise even more questions for millennials and other young adults as they begin to have children.
For anxious young adults, religion can be a wellness tool, says new study
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 10, 2019
(RNS) — A new study by the Christian research firm Barna Group suggests faith can be an asset when dealing with mental health concerns.
Dinner church movement sets the table for food, faith and friendships
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 29, 2019
CHICAGO (RNS) — Dinner churches are popping up across the country in churches in a number of denominations, conservative and progressive, urban and rural and everything in between.
A Durham, NC, church sees the arts as its North Star
By Yonat Shimron — August 27, 2019
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — An old church is refurbished and reimagined to focus on the arts and the ways in which artistic expression can be a vehicle for transcendence.
Millennials, moral relativism and Iris Murdoch
By Tara Isabella Burton — July 19, 2019
(RNS) — The celebrated British novelist Iris Murdoch, who would have turned 100 this week, anticipated young Americans' attempt to find goodness without God.
Nuns & Nones helps millennials find surprise soulmates in Catholic sisters
By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 11, 2019
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (RNS) — Nuns & Nones is a growing alliance connecting Catholic women religious, most of whom are over 60, with 20- and 30-something millennials, many of whom identify as religious 'nones.'
Getting in on — and tossed out of — the Satanist Temple joke
By Tara Isabella Burton — May 24, 2019
(RNS) — As more and more millennials identify with spiritual or philosophical movements outside the bounds of 'traditional' religions, how will these groups police their ideology while remaining inclusive?
‘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.
How fan fiction gave millennials power over their spirituality
By Tara Isabella Burton — March 22, 2019
(RNS) — The internet has transformed our consumption of texts — even sacred texts — into malleable pieces that can be reimagined, reinvented and owned in a new way.
Survey: Black millennials skip church as early adults more than whites
By Adelle M. Banks — March 18, 2019
(RNS) — But equal percentages of black and white young adults say they currently attend a congregation regularly, a LifeWay Research analysis shows.
Life stories — not sermons — guide Gilead Church in Chicago
By Katelyn Ferral — March 4, 2019
CHICAGO (RNS) — At Gilead Church in Chicago, life stories are as sacred as Scripture.
Canadians, led by millennials, show broad tolerance for religion in public life
By John Longhurst — December 6, 2018
(RNS) — Canada may appear very secular compared with its southern neighbor, but a new poll suggests there is more openness to religion than it appears, especially among younger Canadians.
Vatican summit enters the home stretch. But where’s the finish line?
By Bob Smietana — October 22, 2018
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After a monthlong debate about how to engage young people, this Catholic synod may be hard put to forge consensus.
