The New Copernicans: Millennials and the Survival of the Church

Our millennial children, as well as non-churchgoing millennials, are both the church's greatest challenge and its most exciting new opportunity.

There is a fundamental frame of reference shift in American society happening right now among young adults. You may think of this group as millennials - those born between 1980 and 2000 - but millennials resist this label for good reason: The national narrative on them is pejorative, patronizing, and false.

Here's what we do know:

• 76 percent of Ameri...