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Gen Z lost touch with faith communities during pandemic but kept the faith, says study
Researchers are warning religious leaders, teachers and parents there isn’t going to be a simple “back to normal” approach for young people after the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather, we should all be looking for ways to help them experience “the new normal.”
That’s the argument from Springtide Research Institute, which surveyed 2,500 members of Generation Z (ages 13 to 25) in February 2021 about their experiences of, and attitudes about, the pandemic.
It’s not going to be easy for young people to merely pick up where they left off, said Josh Packard, Springtide’s executive director.
“There’s just a whole lot of things that they missed,” he said. “They’re not getting back to some sort of normality. And they need help processing that, to make sense of it and understanding their lives now.” Read More
Image Credit: Kristoffer Trolle/Creative Commons
Researchers are warning religious leaders, teachers and parents there isn’t going to be a simple “back to normal” approach for young people after the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather, we should all be looking for ways to help them experience “the new normal.”
That’s the argument from Springtide Research Institute, which surveyed 2,500 members of Generation Z (ages 13 to 25) in February 2021 about their experiences of, and attitudes about, the pandemic.
It’s not going to be easy for young people to merely pick up where they left off, said Josh Packard, Springtide’s executive director.
“There’s just a whole lot of things that they missed,” he said. “They’re not getting back to some sort of normality. And they need help processing that, to make sense of it and understanding their lives now.” Read More
Image Credit: Kristoffer Trolle/Creative Commons
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