Springtide Research Institute was recently featured by Gallup. This article, Religion in the U.S.: Items of Note From Ongoing Research is reprinted in part below, but we encourage you to visit their site to read the piece in its entirety. Several studies have suggested a stabilization in the increase of
Lucy, a college student at Villanova University, shares how she weaves an appreciation for tradition with a need for exploration in how she defines and approaches her spiritual life. Participating in small faith communities, playing music in various religious and non-religious spaces, and connecting with the natural world are practices
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
Springtide Research Institute was recently featured by The Wall Street Journal. This article, Young People Say Disconnect Keeps Them From Church is reprinted in part below, but we encourage you to visit their site to read the piece in its entirety. Half of young people ages 13 to 25 surveyed said
Springtide Executive Director Dr. Josh Packard talks with Marte Aboagye, producer of The Voices of Young People Podcast, about key themes and takeaways from Season 5, exploring how the 10 guests’ stories correspond with our latest report: The State of Religion & Young People 2021: Navigating Uncertainty.
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
Springtide Research Institute was recently featured by Inside Higher Ed. This article, The Imperative to Support Muslim Students is reprinted in part below, but we encourage you to visit their site to read the piece in its entirety. A massive survey Sadaf Jaffer recently completed two terms in Montgomery Township,
Season 5 of The Voices of Young People Podcast features ten young people telling us, in their own words, about their experiences of faith, doubt, and uncertainty. Listen to the episodes at springtideresearch.org/podcast. In this season, we invited young people to tell us what “faith” means to them, including why or whether they would use that
A look at “faith unbundled” You’ve probably heard us talking about “Faith Unbundled” – it’s a central concept in our State of Religion & Young People 2021 report. But if you haven’t had a chance to read it yet (sign up to receive a free download of the report the