Millennials, the Church Needs You!

It is hardly news that many folks are skipping church. Mainline Protestant and Catholic Church membership continues to dwindle, as many Americans, especially younger ones, pursue other activities. The Pew Research Center's Religion and Public Life Project and other survey outlets indicate that more than one-fifth of Americans now have no religious affiliation, and more than one-third of young adults under 30 are not active in a faith community.

Many reports on this decline are quick to qualify these numbers with the fact that more than two-thirds of the so-called NONES maintain a belief in God, but simply have little or no interest in organized religion. So the issue is not one of a sudden upsurge in atheists, but disenchantment with church.