Much has been written about Millennials and religion these days. Most of the time, outsiders are the ones speculating about how my generation interacts with religion. As a millennial and an observer of the trend, I’m frustrated by the rhetoric that assesses my generation as spiritual, but not religious and says that we’re disinterested in orthodoxy as both concept and requirement — Christian orthodoxy especially.
Such speculations are not surprising when the slight-of-hand media magicians who make them are examined. The questions asked of Millennials about our faith by the broader media betray a frightful bias in one of two directions: “either infantile or incendiary,” as Michel Martin recently observed. [For more on this, also listen to Krista Tippett’s interview with Richard Rodriguez.]
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