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

Rob Lee collected testimonials from faithful millennials for his book, 'Stained-Glass Millennials'
Jessi Lancaster
Rob Lee collected testimonials from faithful millennials for his book, 'Stained-Glass Millennials'
Rob Lee collected testimonials from faithful millennials for his book, 'Stained-Glass Millennials'
Credit Jessi Lancaster
Rob Lee collected testimonials from faithful millennials for his book, 'Stained-Glass Millennials'

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.

Host Frank Stasio talks with ordained minister and author Rob Lee keeping the faith in a new era.

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.

Copyright 2017 North Carolina Public Radio

Will Michaels started his professional radio career at WUNC.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.