Religion and spirituality can aid youth mental health crisis – US study
United StatesRNS Born into a tech-saturated world shaken by domestic terrorism, ecological devastation and economic instability, Gen-Zers are more likely to report mental health concerns like anxiety and depression than older generations. In many ways, the pandemic has forced mental health discourse into the limelight, prompting the US surgeon general to issue an advisory last December on COVID-19’s “devastating” […]
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…
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…
Gen Z lost touch with faith communities during pandemic but kept the faith, says US study
RNS Researchers are warning religious leaders, teachers and parents there isn’t going to be a simple “back to normal” approach for young people after the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather, we should all be looking for ways to help them experience “the new normal“. That’s the argument from Springtide Research Institute, which surveyed 2,500 members of Generation Z […]
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 […]