Pastor Rob Bell is is the author of Love Wins, Velvet Elvis, and Sex God, and is a coauthor of Jesus Wants to Save Christians. He is also featured in the first series of spiritual short films called NOOMA with spiritual teachings aimed at teenagers and college-age adults.

Cameron Strang is president and founder of Relevant Media Group in Winter Park, Fla., which targets Christian “twenty- and thirtysomethings” across denominations.

Read an Associated Press story from 2002 about the religious views of the “millennial generation” (born starting in 1982).

Read a Sept. 26, 2004, Indianapolis Star story about techniques congregations are using – from basketball to fire pits – to try to draw more teenagers to worship.

Read a Sept. 3, 2004, Associated Press story about Seventeen magazine starting a new section on faith.

The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding is a nonprofit group that tries to help parents and other adults better understand youth culture.

Read the results of a national study funded by the John Templeton Foundation on spirituality in higher education conducted between 2003 and 2010. The study was conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California in Los Angeles and includes responses from thousands of undergraduates at diverse colleges and universities from around the U.S.

See summaries of research findings from the National Study of Youth and Religion, funded by the Lilly Endowment and based at the University of North Carolina. From July 2002 to March 2003, the researchers conducted a random nationwide telephone survey of 3,370 teenagers ages 13 to 17 and their parents, and followed that up with 267 […]

Christianity Today publishes Ignite Your Life, a news and resource source for teens.