Research

Our newest report, Cultivating Care: How & Why Young People Participate in Civic Life, explores young people’s civic lives in the context of care—how they seek and gain knowledge, detangle [...]

Our newest report, The State of Religion & Young People 2023: Exploring the Sacred, presents the ways young people experience the sacred in traditional spaces and throughout day-to-day life. [...]

Springtide is officially one year into its journey to learn what’s working for Gen Z.   Supported by a $1.25 million grant from Lilly Foundation, our research team has been connecting [...]

As part of our work for The State of Religion & Young People 2023: Exploring the Sacred, we invited young people ages 13 to 25 to submit an original photo to My Sacred Space, an online photo [...]

In our latest report, The State of Religion & Young People 2023: Exploring the Sacred, young people report that sacred moments are characterized by truth, wonder, awe, gratitude, and a sense [...]

In our annual State of Religion & Young People reports, we survey young people on certain dimensions of religion and spirituality to measure changes from both year to year and over time. [...]

Our newest report, The State of Religion & Young People 2023: Exploring the Sacred, detailed young people’s sacred experience. Young people told us that for them the sacred isn’t confined to [...]

Springtide’s mission is to listen to and understand the distinct ways young people express community, identity, and meaning. While we craft actionable insights based on that research, we look to [...]

In our newest report, The State of Religion & Young People 2023: Exploring the Sacred, young people share their insights on what is sacred to them and how the sacred impacts their lives. Our [...]

As we embarked on this year’s report, we asked young people that initial question. Their responses transcended narrow categories and painted an expansive picture of how sacred experience can take [...]