September 25, 2010

Young Adults' Spirituality is 'Wide, Shallow'

Cathy Grossman, USA Today

Franklin Graham's Ft. Bragg evangelism event raises fire

How do you assess the spiritual lives and Bible views of young adults when surveys find they...

View Paris Hilton more favorably than Billy Graham?Think Wicca is patio furniture?Say the main reason they never watch evangelist Robert Schuller's Hour of Power is because, they "don't like violence"?

Their spirituality is "extremely wide, often shallow and always compelling," says David Kinnaman, president of Barna Group, a Ventura, Calif., research group that presents itself as "the Gallup of the faith world."

Kinnaman, who has been studying the under-25 year olds for a decade, was the opening speaker at a day devoted to addresses on the challenges in...

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