“Data shows that younger generations — millennials, Gen Z — are not necessarily leaving the faith as much as they are leaving the organizational religious structures and renegotiating the faith they were given. Their powerful, loud, honest, and truthful voices are still speaking; they are just going out there into the world with it because that is where they are being led. That is where they find space. That is what prophets do. Our youth heed that whisper in their hearts, something in their guts, and they go. As the church body, we should start to listen and see where they lead us. What if we turned our ear to the prophets in our youth groups and children’s ministries?” –Jonathan D’Amico (he/him/his) on Aug 28, 2023