08/28/2026
That figure comes from a 2026 Gallup survey reported in Turning the Tide in 2026, a study from Harvard’s Making Caring Common Project. Among young people ages 19 to 25, it climbs to 51%.
The researchers describe this as a sense of being unmoored and directionless, and they note it cuts widely across gender, race, class, geography, and political ideology. It isn’t concentrated in one kind of community. It’s likely present in ours.
TENx10 puts it this way: Jesus is our best answer to teenagers’ questions of identity, belonging, and purpose. In relational discipleship radically focused on Jesus, young people share their faith, serve their neighbors, and seek justice.
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