Mike Kelley

"No sex, no booze, we’re off to church: Gen Z have found God" A YouGov study reveals that young adults, particularly men, are going to church in increasing numbers. “There are some things that ChatGPT can’t answer. Like, what is your purpose? Why are we here?” she says. “We have TikTok, Google, Instagram and AI at our fingertips. I could search anything. But there are more big questions than the internet has answers for. People are realising that maybe they can find them in God.” What do her non-Christian friends think? “I never get any negative reactions. Just like people in the outside world are looking for honest ways they can express their authentic selves, I am going to church and I know I can be my authentic self. I don’t have to hide.”... Today, there are Christian dating apps such as Salt, which is like Tinder but everyone loves Jesus — and possibly you too. Esther Jackson, 23, has friends who have met their husbands on the app, though she prefers to use Hinge. “You can set Christianity as a dealbreaker. You have to do a bit of investigative work and suss out how serious they are about their faith.”... Jackson grew up in a Christian family but she didn’t start going to church “for herself” until after university. “I’d become disillusioned with the rules and regulations. I thought there was more to life that would make me happy and I chased that at university — the classic experience of partying, drinking, guys. But I realised that even after doing that I was still unhappy.” Why does she think more Gen Z peers are considering religion? “We’re always called the hopeless generation. We’re dealing with so many mental health problems, and online culture has fuelled comparison on another level. It’s driving people to burnout. I think once they hit that place of, ‘I have tried and I am still not good enough,’ that’s when people are turning to Christianity.” Link in replies.