What Makes Young Evangelicals Less Conservative? Results of New Study May Surprise You

A study looking at what drives some Millennial Evangelicals to hold less conservative views than their elders generated surprising results.

Young white Evangelicals whose social networks mostly included people like them were the most likely to depart from older Evangelicals on cultural issues while young Evangelicals with more diverse social networks were more likely to hold views similar to older Evangelicals. In other words, the more embedded Millennial Evangelicals are in the Evangelical subculture and the less interaction they have with non-Evangelicals, the more likely they are to demonstrate attitudes diverging from their elders. Read more

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