Springtide Research Institute was recently mentioned in an article by Interfaith America. You can see an excerpt of this article in part below, but we encourage you to visit their site to read the piece in its entirety.

That conversation also gave me something more: language. The Lutheran chaplain who once supported my efforts to build Jewish life at Capital told me about Springtide Research Institute and its concept of “Faith Unbound” — the idea that many young people are no longer confined by inherited categories. They don’t see faith as a single container but as a river fed by many streams. 

Springtide calls this “not accepting the whole bundle” of beliefs and practices that institutions offer. Instead, young people curate faith from multiple sources — mixing rituals, values, and even art or activism — rather than inheriting a single system. When I read that, I thought: This isn’t just what I see in students. This is me. 

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