SOCIAL ISSUES,

“When we began the SVP, we anticipated young people’s concern about social issues to be the project’s primary finding,” said Wieboldt, who will attend the University of Notre Dame in the fall to pursue a J.D./Ph.D. “However, when we began to analyze the data, we noticed that students spoke about social issues much less frequently than we expected based on the outsized attention that these issues receive in the media and culture more broadly.”

“These issues are important to young people,” Wieboldt emphasized, “but they are not the first thing that comes to mind when young people are asked about their relationship with God.”