Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look, in an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Well, Gen Z is the least religious cohort in American history.

43% of this generation that was born roughly between 1996 and 2012 identify as religious nuns.

While there have been many reports since Charlie Kirk's assassination that indicate increased interest in religion and increased church attendance,

according to statistician Ryan Burge, there's not yet statistical evidence of religious revival among young people.

There is, however, ample evidence that Zumers are

looking for meaning and willing to reconsider religion. Specifically, though these trends may not

be yet large enough to be captured in statistics, there seems to be a growing interest in more

rigorous forms of faith. In a recent article in Tablet magazine, Ani Wilchensky, a Zoomer herself,

explained the phenomenon. While acknowledging that Gen Z is less religious than previous

generations, Wilchensky researched those that were bucking the trend, including converts to

Islam, Jews becoming more observant, Latin-Mas Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and others who have been joining stricter, more traditional religious groups.

According to Wilchensky, Gen Z has been raised with, and I quote,

The Illusion of Infinite Horizons. They grew up, quoting again, without sturdy institutions or fulfilling rights of passage.

As a result for this generation, everything, career, identity, relationships,

unfolds as a series of self-directed experiments, something that has been labeled

liquid modernity.

Sociologists Zygman coined that phrase to describe the experience of life as unstable and non-perman

without fixed distinctions and with no foundations for cultivating identity.

The experience of liquid modernity is why, Wilchinsky thinks, the ideological capture of Gen Z

has been so comprehensive. For example, nearly one quarter of that

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