Young adults are famously known as 'the missing generation' for being M.I.A. in church pews nowadays. Yet I believe our concern over the fact that they left should not overshadow the elephant in the room: What young adults are really looking for in a church. This article summarizes my Master's thesis in Theology, where I asked exactly that question and found their answers confirmed my suspicions: Young adults are yearning for churches that are spiritual, international, inter

What is the missing generation? It's the generation of young adults, from the age of 18 and onwards, that seems to have slipped out the back door of the church building when no one was paying attention. What defines these ones who leave the church to go search for greener pastures elsewhere? Where have they gone? And will they ever consider coming back? Is the missing generation much more complex than what we have believed? What follows is not another doom-and-gloom prophecy

When we read the news and look at the world around us today, it can be tempting to throw our hands up in defeat: 'Young adults are leaving the church! What will happen to the church of tomorrow?' As someone who grew up in the church, went to seminary, worked in ministry, and is still walking with Jesus daily - and as the final months of my twenties are on the horizon - I think my perspective on the matter of youth and church attendance might surprise you. What follows is not

As a novice gardener, I'm learning to enjoy the feeling of getting my hands dirty. I wonder about how that is also one of God's first actions in the Bible - He reached down and formed mankind from the dust. When we think about God the Potter, we often abstract that image and view it without the rest of Scripture that colors it in. This contemplative article places the whole 'God is the Potter, We are the Clay' idea front and centre - then I use other verses, popular and lesse