Fides Quaerens Intellectum

The hot-off-the press issue of the Biola magazine (I did my M.A. at Biola U in CA) features a provocative article–”Is Prayer a Priority in a Twitter World?”  It references the recent study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life which shows that younger folks (ages 18-29) are the least likely group of American adults to pray on a daily basis–only 48% actually.  For millennials whose primary method of communicating is texting and tweeting, it’s no surprise that this is the case.  One of the Biola profs quoted in the article observes that “many young people have been conditioned to treat prayer as a bite-sized activity to squeeze into their lives–and have difficulties spending extended amounts of time in prayer.”