The latest on The Nones …
October 19, 2010
|In Blog
Research confirms that secular conservatives and religious progressives are becoming rarer … and religious-political polarization is driving more (especially young) people away from the church. This certainly matches what I’m seeing and hearing in my travels. Thankfully, more and more churches are deciding to buck the trend …
Quotable:
In religious affinities, as in taste in music and preference for colas, habits formed in early adulthood tend to harden over time. So if more than one-quarter of today’s young people are setting off in adult life with no religious identification, compared with about one-20th of previous generations, the prospects for religious observance in the coming decades are substantially diminished.
