For three decades, America has seen a constant, consistent drop in the percentage of Americans who consider themselves religious. But now that trend has been arrested, seemingly thanks to to Gen Z’s surprising embrace of organized religion — and Christianity in particular. So what explains why zoomers are getting religion in numbers that their millennial counterparts didn’t? Christian Paz recently explored three theories for why Gen Z is finding faith, including the surprising role of Covid-19.
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