Spirituality In Higher Education 2004–2005

The Spir­i­tu­al­i­ty In High­er Edu­ca­tion project has released a new report for the 2004–2005 school year.

Some high­lights (and my thoughts):

80% of col­lege stu­dents attend­ed a reli­gious ser­vice with­in the last year.
MY THOUGHT: if they’re not com­ing back to the church it’s not out of ignorance–they don’t like what they see.

50% of stu­dents are “seek­ing” “con­flict­ed” or “doubt­ing” when it comes to their faith.
MY THOUGHT: that’s half my audience–is my min­istry struc­tured accord­ing­ly?

26% of fresh­men con­sid­er them­selves born again.
MY THOUGHT: they don’t know what that phrase means 😉

There’s a very read­able arti­cle, Reli­gios­i­ty Ris­ing On Cam­pus, that cov­ers the same data as in the offi­cial report.