What is Causing Today’s Relational Abandonment Epidemic
Thirty-eight percent of Americans went no contact last year. Sixty percent of Gen Z did. The driver is not only hurt. It is identity loss—and the way of Christ is still the way through it.
Thirty-eight percent of Americans went no contact last year. Sixty percent of Gen Z did. The driver is not only hurt. It is identity loss—and the way of Christ is still the way through it.
Purity culture promised holiness. What it produced instead was shame, secrecy, and a generation of young believers who felt they could never measure up. The ideal was always just out of reach — and the harder people tried to grasp it, the more condemnation they felt.
“For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.” Galatians 5:1 NRSV I am unsure if I’ve ever shared this but my wife and I are Mennonites. Basically what this means is that our parents and grandparents were followers of Menno Simons teachings. For…