Are they leaving? Are they leaving? Are they staying Bible reading? Ever praying? Will the church be ever praying? Don't you see why we are saying

all the kids all right?

Welcome to Are the Kids All Right, the latest sub-series from The Holy Post.

Whether you're a parent, a youth pastor, a teacher, or a young

person yourself, you've probably seen all of the headlines concerning Gen Z.

Rates of depression and loneliness are surging. Their relationship with technology is kind of troubling and they are leaving the church in droves.

We've talked about these trends a lot on the Holy Post, but we're not alone.

10 by 10 is a new collaborative discipleship initiative whose mission is to make

faith matter more for this younger generation. You'll hear more about the great work they're doing

later in the show, but we've partnered with 10 by 10 to create

this series and to hear from experts in each episode about the challenges young people and those

who care about them are facing.

One of those experts is Felicia Song, a professor of sociology at Westmont who studies the

place of digital technologies in contemporary life.

She regularly speaks on digital practices, social media, the

digital media industry, parenting in the digital age, and spiritual formation at

universities and colleges, churches, schools, parent groups, and conferences.

Caitlin Shess sat down with Felicia to find out if the kids are going to be all right.

Felicia, thank you so much for joining us to talk about this today.

Sure, it's a real pleasure to be with you.

Yeah, so we're going to talk a little bit about technology, internet culture, and especially how we should think about this when it comes to teenagers

and young people. In some sense, I feel like this might be helpful for people who have kids, but

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