[Faith] Episode 66: Angela Patterson - The Faith of Gen Z

The Bible For Normal People

The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Faith for Normal People, Jared sits down with media psychologist Dr. Angela Patterson to discuss the trends she studies in the spiritual lives of Gen Z, or people born between 1997 and 2012. Angela explains how the typical timeline of faith progression has become much less linear with Gen Z, and encourages parents, church leaders, and older generations to create a space for young people to ask tough questions, wrestle with doubts, and find new ways of living out faith. This episode also includes a special ending segment in which anonymous members of our Gen-Z cohort share their thoughts on faith. Show Notes → https://thebiblefornormalpeople.com/episode-66-angela-patterson-the-faith-of-gen-z/ Watch this episode on YouTube → https://youtu.be/IU-Iqo-fSXo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:04.3	I'm Pete Ends.
0:05.0	And I'm Jared Baez.
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1:08.9	Before we jump into today's episode, we wanted to tell you about
1:12.3	our October class led by Jared called The Bible is Not a Rulebook. That's right. I'll be teaching
1:18.7	on Tuesday, October 28th from 8 to 9 p.m. Eastern Time, and I'm going to be talking about how
1:24.1	most of us, even the non-evangelicals among us, have been told the Bible's
1:28.2	job is to hand us moral answers. Sometimes that looks like a rulebook, sometimes that's treating
1:33.7	it like a crystal ball that can tell us our purpose in life. So how can we use the Bible in a way
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