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Gen Z returns to faith — that can only be a good thing

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A new report about Stanford University notes that the number of students making new commitments to faith is skyrocketing.

To take just one denomination, the number of students who have joined the university’s Catholic Church has skyrocketed, from an average of four per year to 46 this year.

Other faith communities are experiencing similar levels of renewed interest from young people.

That may come as a surprise, given what we are usually told about Gen Z.

Today’s youth, we hear, don’t know how to commit to anything. They don’t show up for job interviews. They use AI to do their homework. They don’t make eye contact. They communicate in emojis. And they can’t imagine a time when anything was different.

All of that may be true. Yet there is also a countercurrent.

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