This is something we all need to do a better job of. We can ill afford to lose our young people because we do not take their doubts and questions seriously.
A pretty good article about why young people are walking away from the church, which you can find here.
Another excellent article written about young people who have already left appeared in Christianity Today, which you can find here.
But the most striking and widespread reason the article gives for why people are leaving is shown in this quote:
Another unsettling pattern emerged during my interviews. Almost to a person, the leavers with whom I spoke recalled that, before leaving the faith, they were regularly shut down when they expressed doubts. Some were ridiculed in front of peers for asking “insolent questions.” Others reported receiving trite answers to vexing questions and being scolded for not accepting them. One was slapped across the face, literally.
At the 2008 American Sociological Association meeting, scholars from the University of Connecticut and Oregon State University reported that “the most frequently mentioned role of Christians…
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