The Rise of the ‘Umms’

Church membership in the U.S. has dropped by roughly 25% since 2000. Today, less than half of American millennials identify with a place of worship.

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

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