What if we are seeing the fruit of a generation that was sold endless attempts to make Christ cool and likable, worship relevant and hyper-emotional, and Christian morality more about politics and cultural influence than obedience to God? And what if this generation has now found those experiences elsewhere? What if all of the trendy marketing, political capital, and massive concert experiences inadvertently taught a generation to love the glamour and the feelings, but not Christ?
Examining the data from the General Social Survey, it turns out it’s not the baby boomers who were the last vestige of a highly religious, very Christian era of American history. Instead, Generation X — born between 1965 and the early ’80s — is the last to come of age and even perpetuate an overwhelmingly Christian and largely devout religious landscape in terms of church attendance and beliefs about God.
According to a recently released poll, 35 percent of Millennials and 34 percent of Gen-Xers say they believe “individual ownership of property facilitates economic injustice.” That's compared to 13 percent of Boomers and 16 percent of Builders.
According to a new survey, support for Israel has fallen significantly in the past three years among young evangelicals.
According to a new study by Arizona Christian University's Cultural Research Center, Millennials are more likely to believe in horoscopes than in an "all-knowing" God.
According to a study by Arizona Christian University, 43 percent of Millennials said they either don't know, care or believe that God exists. This is compared to just 28 percent of Baby Boomers who feel this way.
According to a recent study from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, just 16 percent of Millennials classify as born-again Christians.
A former colleague got in touch this week to ask me a question I’ve heard often since my book The Next Mormons was published earlier this year. He understands the problems we’re all facing with religious retention in America; now he would like to be pointed to solutions, especially for millennials and Generation Z.
