Springtide is excited to announce the next installment of our playlist project, which comes straight from the minds of our two summer editorial interns, Lucy Cobble and Arsema Belai. Together, they came up with the idea to curate playlists to correspond to the themes of our reports, with recommendations for
Springtide is excited to share this intimate, wide-ranging, and thoughtful conversation between two siblings, Seher and Spencer, discussing life during the pandemic. In this video, pediatric chaplain and Springtide Research Advisory Board member Seher Siddiqee sits down with her younger sibling, 14-year-old Spencer, to discuss lessons and challenges from the realities of
As a junior in high school, I have the joy of taking AP US History, a class that provides an extensive account of our nation’s history and early issues. One section of our class that particularly resonated with me explored the reasons behind the drastic decline in American piety at the start of the eighteenth century. Historians posed the question: “what caused this
Meet our Writer in Residence, Hannah Connors! The Springtide Writer in Residence is a brand-new program designed to nurture and encourage a young writer through one-on-one mentoring, workshopping and feedback, prompts and assignments, and opportunities for skill-building, bylines, networking, and hands-on experience in publishing and production. Among other opportunities, this 9-month
Some of life’s biggest questions are: Who am I? What is my purpose? Or lately for me: What’s next? I’ve realized that I turn to three sources to hold these questions and think through answers. It’s interesting to look at Springtide’s statistics about where people are looking to reveal all the answers—including looking to themselves. When asked “Why, when facing uncertain
Faith Unbundled is a term for what might seem like the “cherry-picking” approach to Generation Z’s spiritual and religious affiliation. It is a phenomenon that has been present in my own life for years, though I didn’t previously have a title for it. If it sounds arrogant or entitled—to essentially
Springtide is excited to announce a brand-new resource straight from the minds of our two summer editorial interns, Lucy Cobble and Arsema Belai. Together, they came up with the idea to curate playlists to correspond to the themes of our reports, with recommendations for music that suits certain moods. They
A poem from former Springtide intern, Norhan When I was 9, I told Baba I figured it out: “I know how to stay in touch with you when you’re in America without you spending any money!” His look of curiosity encouraged his words to escape his lips: “Keef?” How? My small
[A note on the artwork: Lily, 15, who offers some written reflections on community in the post below, also wanted to contribute an original work of art to this exploration of community.] Recently, Springtide reached out to members of the Springtide Ambassadors Program (SAP), a group of young people that directly
In March, Springtide launched The New Normal: 8 Ways to Care for Gen Z in a Post-Pandemic World. For many of us, the last year was spent in isolation or in the company of only a few close friends, family, or coworkers—all in an effort to protect our communities. But we’re entering a unique point on the timeline: a time at which we can both reflect on