Each week, Know Why tackles tough questions on topics ranging from spirituality to current events, with special attention to the issues facing millennials and members of Gen Z. While we approach these issues from a Christian perspective, we discuss diverse opinions and ultimately dive into what the research says.

There are few subjects today that occupy more attention and debate in our culture than the Millennial generation.

By: Jessica Grose – nytimes.com – November 25, 2023 You’re reading the Jessica Grose newsletter, for Times subscribers only. A journalist and novelist offers her perspective on the Americanfamily, culture, politics and the way we live now. When I wrote my series on why Americans are moving away from organized religion, I didn’t focus specifically on thoseunder 30, even though...

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – October 23, 2023 The 18-to-24 cohort isn’t evaluating events in Israel on their merits but filtering them through the intellectual ‘framework’ of lies they’ve been taught. The monthly Harvard/Harris survey conducted in the wake of the Hamas-perpetrated massacre of over 1,400 Israelis on October 7 has good news and bad news for those who...

G. K. Chesterton once observed that modern people have a pernicious habit of “sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.” We fixate on exceptions as if they invalidate general truths.

Natural law shows that things like abortion, homosexuality, pornography, etc. are bad for us (i.e., evil). Thus, we have no “rights” to such things.

How can policymakers advance equity for women in the workplace?

Millennials are struggling to develop positive, lasting relationships—and these relational difficulties are likely tied to increasing levels of emotional and mental health issues young Americans report experiencing on a regular basis.

Though Gen Z-ers have all but replaced Millennials as the dazzling object of scrutiny and cultural analysis, it’s not because Millennials are no longer struggling.

By: Cathleen Falsani – ncronline.org – April 24, 2019 Anthony Graffagnino describes himself spiritually as both frustrated and curious. A Pentecostal turned Unitarian, the 28-year-old Graffagnino said he’s had his fill with “stale and dead expressions of faith that I saw really doing nothing to better the people around me or the world around me.” Discovering the Christian mystical tradition through the work...