In today’s On the Square , Glenn T. Stanton wants to talk about The Youth—or, rather, the misrepresentation of the youth by others:
Popular doom and gloom media reports also do not make a distinction between young people leaving the church and young people simply converting to other churches. Young adults who are merely moving from one faith tradition to another, such as from Lutheran to Presbyterian, or Anglican to Catholic, are simply counted among the “leaving.”
Read the rest here .
Think piece pitch, free to anybody who wants it: “Because we no longer cut up animals and stare at their organs to foretell the future, we instead obsessively poll the Young People.” I leave it to the person who takes up this challenge to decide which is the better system. I am generally against cruelty to animals . . . so I guess that leaves me with neither.
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