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...find themselves searching for spirituality or religion that "speaks" to them. My mother, who came of age during WWII, was born into an liberal Orthodox Jewish home, became a Catholic at 18 and now, at age 80, goes door-to-dooring with the Jehovah's Witnesses.
Members of the so-called Disciple Generation are seeking what a number of us have and, as humans, will continue to reach for: faith in something greater than ourselves, something to believe in, something to guide us.
While the tools and trappings may be different, there is nothing new about it all. It's their grandparents' or great-grandparents' religion on caffiene and sporting some tribal tattoos. Their children may turn out to be pagans or atheists. And so it goes...
