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How Your Faith Changes In Your Twenties

When I was 19, I remember sitting in a late-night diner with a group of friends, all of us church kids who had grown up reciting the same verses and singing the same worship songs. Someone casually admitted they weren’t sure they believed in God anymore. The table went silent. We didn’t know how to respond, because doubt was something we’d been taught to fear, not acknowledge.That moment has stuck with me. Study after study shows that this generation of twentysomethings is less interested in the