Springtide Head Writer & Editor Ellen Koneck was a featured guest on The Commonweal Podcast, speaking with managing editor Katie Daniels about The State of Religion & Young People 2020. Springtide’s new report, The State of Religion & Young People 2020, invites us to think differently about the religious practices and aspirations
Springtide Community Engagement Specialist Marte Aboagye was a featured guest on Princeton Theological Seminary’s (PTS) Being Church in the Time of COVID podcast in their Rites of Passage episode. In this episode, they asked the question: What impact has COVID-19 had on your community’s rituals and rites of passage? Marte
Dr. Josh Packard joined youth pastor and host Josh McLemore for the Church Hurts podcast for a conversation exploring Springtide’s 2020 research from Belonging: Reconnecting America’s Loneliest Generation. Gen Z is the loneliest generation—the most connected but the most lonely—and church attendance barely moves the needle on these numbers. Packard and McLemore also
The Weld Found Podcast explores “belonging in an age of social isolation and disconnection.” Dr. Josh Packard brought Springtide Research Institute’s latest research on loneliness to this conversation with Tim Coons, the Communications Director at the Weld Community Foundation. In this time of social distancing through COVID-19, the pain of loneliness and social exclusion is
Relationships, not programs or institutional formulas for behavior or belief, are key to addressing the loneliness, social isolation, and stress so prevalent in the lives of young people today. Dr. Josh Packard, executive director of Springtide Research Institute, shared those and other insights with Holy Soup podcast host Thom Schultz