Seeking an integration of life narratives and faith:
Towards Transcendence
In the eyes of one coming from an Asian or African background, in the churches in Europe young people are conspicuously absent. This situation, of course, has to be considered in the light of the demographic details that I mentioned in an earlier talk. However, the situation does raise some questions. Do the elderly go to church just because they belong to a generation to which religion was important? Or, is it because young people do not simply have the time to go church? Or still, people generally become more interested in religion in later years of life?
One of my lecturers, an Anglican priest herself, has a very interesting explanation: the presence of the elderly in the churches may not be a sign that Christianity has become irrelevant in Europe. The capitalist society puts too much pressure on the young people and […]