Ever heard this from your former youth returning from college?

“Oh, yeah, I heard of a really good church, but I never made [it]. I’m definitely going to go there next semester.  It’s just really hard to get up on Sunday mornings, and I don’t have a car, and…”

Tony Jones has, too. With his series of blog posts about the book Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults by Christian Smith and Patricia Snell, Tony is giving a condensed version of the state of young people in America. Check out his posts at his blog or click here to see the trends of youth in Catholic, mainline, conservative and black protestant churches. While the posts may only confirm what you already expect, confirmation is better than an assumption.