An enduring attraction of religion is that it offers meaning, and that addresses the void and meaningless so many of the younger generations feel. From Walker Larson at The Epoch Times via theburningplatform.com:
In the past, the younger generation tended to rebel against the religious norms of their parents. Young people’s resistance to the rules and institutions of religion was assumed and expected. But that’s not the case anymore.
According to a recent article from Axios, members of Gen Z—which includes young people born between 1997 and 2012—are actually more likely to go to weekly religious services than millennials and young Gen Xers.
According to some reports, church attendance has quadrupled amongst Gen Zers in recent years.
America witnessed a steady decline in Christianity from the 1970s through the 1990s, with only about 46 percent of Americans born in the ’90s identifying as Christian. Yet that falling trend has abruptly halted, likely due to a surge in religiosity amongst young Americans, particularly young men. Some Catholic dioceses, for instance, have reported a 70 percent increase in converts this year compared to last, and many of these new converts are people in their teens and twenties. The winds have changed.
The phenomenon is not restricted to just the United States, either. Throughout the West—which has for so long been the graveyard of Christian civilization, dominated by an aggressive liberal secularism—there are signs of a religious renaissance. In Britain, for example, the percentage of people aged 18 to 24 who attend church at least once a month spiked from 4 percent in 2018 to 16 percent in 2025. This included a 21 percent gain among young men. Meanwhile, across the channel in France, the Catholic Church baptized more than 10,000 adults at the 2025 Easter Vigil—a 45 percent increase over baptisms in 2024, and a 90 percent increase over 2023.
Modernism=corn studded turd?
What worked for ages will work again.
I love the Caravaggio artworks in family Bible.
And have since I was a lil’ shaver.
“What we all dread most,” said the priest in a low voice, “is a maze with no centre. That is why atheism is only a nightmare.”