How we gather

The innovators in this report say yes, not just possible, but necessary. They speak to millennials asfriends, offering positive and practical advice through clean and personable websites. They encouragean ethos of care for self and others and a mindset of abundance. They argue, explicitly or implicitly, thateach person is a change maker with the op... See more

Millennials are less religiously affiliated than ever before. Churches are just one of many institutionalcasualties of the internet age in which young people are both more globally connected and more locallyisolated than ever before.  Though many millennials are atheists or agnostics, the majority are less able to articulate their sense of spi... See more

In other words, when they say they are not lookingfor a faith community, millennials might mean they are not interested in belonging to an institution withreligious creed as the threshold. However, they are decidedly looking for spirituality and community incombination, and feel they can’t lead a meaningful life without it.The lack of deep communit... See more

This looks less like a process  of secularization and more like a paradigmatic shift from an institutional to a personal understanding of  spirituality.  In a qualitative study of a 100 teenagers in five major cities, Richard Flory and Donald Miller found that  millennials are not “the spiritual consumers of their parents’ gener... See more