Young Adults

‘What do students want?’

An interfaith space at Virginia Commonwealth University uses asset-based community development to focus on the strengths and interests of the students who walk through its doors rather than telling them what they need.

By Edie Gross Journalist

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‘I Wish My Dad: The Power of Vulnerable Conversations Between Fathers and Sons’

In this adapted excerpt from his recent book, a writer and divinity school graduate offers suggestions for healthier relationships based on dozens of interviews with men about their fathers.

By Romal Tune Author

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Subverting assumptions about age, experience and wisdom

A priest anticipating her last decade in full-time ministry writes about the intentional choice of a mentor who is a generation younger.

By Rhonda Mawhood Lee Priest and author

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Reaching out to the Nones in humility and love

What do the Nones need? And how can we truly hear them? asks a former professor of pastoral counseling.

By Thomas E. Rodgerson Former assistant professor, Loyola University Maryland

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"Voices for Vocational Accompaniment: Leading, Mentoring, and Learning From the Next Generation"

In this excerpt from a new book by the Forum for Theological Exploration, a mentor reflects on the urgency of young people discovering their prophetic vocation in and after the pandemic.

By Jen Bailey Faith leader and activist

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Robert Rueda: Students in the Rio Grande Valley are ‘an incredible gift to the United States’

Campus minister Robert Rueda inspires students with his message that their experience prepares them to be leaders. Then they get to work.

Stepping off the conveyor belt to Jesus

Members of Generation Z haven’t given up on faith, but they need something different from the religion of their parents, writes Faith & Leadership’s summer intern.

By Kristine McNeill 2021 Faith & Leadership intern

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How our pandemic experience might help the church engage “nones” and “dones”

Let’s leverage a year of forced innovation to be church in a way that attracts people who really are done with religion, writes a minister at a Greenwich Village church.

By Alexis Lillie Minister, The Church of the Village

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Excerpt: "Delighted: What Teenagers Are Teaching The Church About Joy"

Written by four faith leaders with deep connections to youth ministry, "Delighted" was published in April. In this excerpt, co-author Wesley Ellis reflects on how churches can offer joy and authentic friendships to young people.

Kenda Creasy Dean Wesley W. Ellis Justin Forbes Abigail Visco Rusert

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Top 10 Faith & Leadership stories from 2019

We published more than 120 original stories in 2019, from articles by journalists to essays by pastors and scholars to interviews with thinkers and activists. Here are 10 standouts we hope you’ll find inspiring and thought provoking.

Nuns & Nones brings together religiously unaffiliated young adults and Catholic sisters

A six-month convent residency in California gave a group of millennials a window into communal living and discipline.

By Yonat Shimron Journalist

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