In America, Catholics, Hispanics, young people most likely to voice climate concerns – survey
United StatesRNS Catholics and Hispanics are among the most concerned in the US about the impact of climate change, with Gen Z and millennials more likely to take collective action on the matter, according to a new survey commissioned by the international humanitarian agency Catholic Relief Services. While a majority of Americans (81 per cent) […]
Millennials adopt digital worship, but not at the expense of IRL faith
United StatesRNS No small number of millennials were first introduced to personal technology tending to their tamagotchis during recess. Only later did the dot-com revolution, smartphones and social media invade every part of their lives, from relationships to health to music – and faith. Today, meditation podcasts, TikTok sermons and livestreams of Friday (Jumah) prayers […]
Essay: In the US, Gen Z mixes abortion politics – like all their politics – with spirituality
In an article first published on Religion News Service, JOSH PACKARD, executive director of Springtide Research Institute, says data shows college-age Americans are resisting fixed definitions for what it means to be religious…
Sight-Seeing: Youth ministries must innovate to survive
In an article published by Religion News Service, JOSH PACKARD, of Springtide Research Institute, and Rev ABIGAIL RUSERT, of the Institute for Youth Ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary, say youth ministries need to respond to the changing religious landscape…
Essay: If faith leaders want to reach Gen Z, meet them in the streets
In an article published by Religion News Service, JOSH PACKARD, WILLIAM J BARBER II, AND A KAZIMIR BROWN reflect on data showing that 20 per cent of “very religious” young people in the US say they engage in acts of protest on a daily basis…
Easy money? Gen Z invest online to beat coronavirus woes
Seoul, South KoreaThomson Reuters Foundation Juggling homework, friends and his personal YouTube channel, 12-year-old Kwon Joon is often too busy to check on his investments – not that the South Korean schoolboy is too concerned. With impressive returns of 42 per cent since he began dabbling in the stock market last year, Kwon believes online […]
Survey: UK teens are more likely than millennials to believe in God
RNS 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. The survey, conducted by YouGov in late November, found that 23 per cent of Britons aged 16 to 24 said they believe in God, with an additional […]
US study shows Gen Z is lukewarm about religion, but open to relationships
RNS More than half of teens and young adults who say they are affiliated with an organised religion also say they have little or no trust in organised religion. In other words, they are involved in religious institutions on paper but are disengaged at some level because they don’t trust religious institutions – even the […]
Sight-Seeing: Leadership lessons from Gen Z
REBECCA OAKLEY, a cross-cultural missionary and Fellow of Anglican Deaconess Ministries, looks at what she’s learnt from leading Gen Z – and how those lessons can help in any form of leadership…
Is the decline in religious affiliation in the US slowing? Some scholars say maybe
RNS 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.” The reality is particularly stark when looked at from a generational perspective. If 10 per cent of people from the silent generation (born […]