America's Youth | Young People Hold Christian Values

If their rising interest in mission trips is any indication, the Millennials may be a generation uniquely wired to stand— and sweat—for God.

As a young man of 23, missionary Jim Elliot wrote in his journal, “For youth there is special wretchedness; for then the powers within conflict most bluntly with the powers without. Restraint is most galling, release most desired. To compensate for these, youth has special powers.”

The so-called special “wretchedness” and “powers” of today’s youth have been the subject of much of the cultural conversation recently....

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