American Youth Are Returning To Church, But They Need Encouragement To Keep Them There |
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American Youth Are Returning To Church, But They Need Encouragement To Keep Them There
Older Christians must commit to providing new converts with the support, discipleship, and community they need to thrive in life-long faith.
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The late James Q. Wilson wrote in 2002: “The right and best way for a culture to restore itself is for it to be rebuilt, not from the top down by government policies, but from the bottom up by personal decisions. On the side of that effort, we can find churches — or at least many of them — and the common experience of adults that the essence of marriage is not sex, or money, or even children: it is commitment.”
Now, nearly a quarter-century later, new evidence shows that young adults, tired of digital isolation and cultural cynicism, and desiring authentic faith and community, are flocking back to churches.
A few weeks ago, The New York Times reported on the wave of people, many of them young adults, returning to the Catholic Church, despite........