Young people are open to God. And he is meeting them where they are

The gospel is looking more and more attractive to younger generations, says George Pitcher

A couple of conversations over the Christmas break with what I’m now entitled to call “young people” have left me strangely encouraged, just a generation into a new millennium that started so gloomily for the future of our faith.

The first was with a house guest (just turned 30) at the supper table. She recalled from her philosophy modules how she liked to take the proposal that “God is love” literally (no problem there, of course). I think she didn’t want to think of God as an objective entity (I diverged here), but that love in its purest form is “capable of all we attribute to God”.