Bringing The World Home To You

© 2024 WUNC North Carolina Public Radio
120 Friday Center Dr
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
919.445.9150 | 800.962.9862
91.5 Chapel Hill 88.9 Manteo 90.9 Rocky Mount 91.1 Welcome 91.9 Fayetteville 90.5 Buxton 94.1 Lumberton 99.9 Southern Pines 89.9 Chadbourn
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

‘Stained-Glass Millennials:’ Keeping The Faith In A New Era

Jessi Lancaster
/
submitted; file

Millennials are the least likely to go to church and less religiously oriented than generations before them. It’s a statistic that has been repeated often in recent years to explain the drop in attendance at Christian churches across the country.

But Rob Lee, a Methodist millennial, says that the faithful in his generation have been lost in that narrative.

The Statesville, N.C., native grew up steeped in the traditions and community of his church, and argues there is more common ground between the church and millennials than the statistics show.

In his book, “Stained-Glass Millennials” (2016/Smyth & Helwys), Lee collected testimonials from a handful of faithful millennials who explain why they have stayed in their churches despite their doubts, and how those institutions can reach back out to this generation.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Lee, an ordained minister and student at Duke University Divinity School, about his own journey of faith and mainline Christianity in the Millennial generation.

Related Stories
More Stories