Sight-Seeing: In faith communities, Gen Z minorities struggle to find belonging
JOSH PACKARD, executive director of Springtide Research Institute, and HANNAH TURNER, a research intern at the institute, write – in an article first published on Religion News Service – about what data reveals about the relationship between minority youth and churches…
Growing number of young men in Australia targeted for ‘sextortion’
Kuala LumpurThomson Reuters Foundation A rising number of young men in Australia are falling victim to online “sextortion”, the head of the country’s internet safety agency has warned, bucking a global trend of primarily targeting vulnerable women and girls. Seven out of 10 victims of sextortion – a form of extortion that involves sexual acts […]
ESSAY: UNDERSTANDING THE ‘GRETA EFFECT’
MAL FLETCHER, writing from London, looks at the impact of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg and her position at the forefront of what he calls ‘Generation Edge’…
YouTube key to evangelising young people online, UK survey finds
The “most effective space for sharing Jesus online” is YouTube, according to a new study carried out for Youth For Christ in the UK. The research – which followed on from a 2017 study which found three-quarters of Generation Z engaged with YouTube daily – found that 41 per cent of young people ranked YouTube […]
SCRIPTURE: REIMAGINING THE BIBLE FOR A VISUAL GENERATION
CAITLIN YOSHIKO KANDIL reports for Religion News Service on a new Scripture initiative taps into the trend for visual design…