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Gen Z Men Are More Conservative – Part Two

The ‘Quiet Revival’: British Gen Zers are going to church.

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Last week in the Good Oil, an article highlighted that Gen Z American young men had swung in behind Trump (https://goodoil.news/gen-z-men-are-more-conservative/). The 18- to 24-year-old group helped him win the last presidential election. This noteworthy 56 per cent increase is a remarkable outcome. These men voted for more traditional values and a conservative Republican Party leader.

Recent research in Britain has taken many by surprise as well. The UK Bible Society commissioned a survey that was conducted by YouGov. The stats are astonishing and come from an unexpected quarter. British Gen Zers are going to church. It showed that British Gen Z young men, in particular, are more conservative, similar to their USA contemporaries.

You can find the full report here https://www.biblesociety.org.uk/research/quiet-revival. The survey was published in April 2025.

The ‘God is dead’ mantra has to be revised.

Church attendance has risen by 50 per cent over the last six years, busting the myth of church decline. The findings come in The Quiet Revival, a survey commissioned by Bible Society and conducted by YouGov.

It is obvious the Gen Z age group is fed up with woke, ideological, clap trap. The swing away from liberal left-wing lies and nonsense, like the promotion of 72 different genders, is glaring and for all to see. Undoubtedly Gen Z men in particular have seen through the falsehoods, preferring the traditional and more conservative values promoted in these churches. 

The Bible Society says:

We’re humbled by the response to The Quiet Revival (published April 2025) and delighted that it's been part of a bigger conversation about the nature of church growth and the changing spiritual atmosphere in England and Wales, and the wider Western world.

Certainly, around the world in the years following the Covid-19 pandemic, many have noted there is a renewed spiritual interest. The spiritual atmosphere in the United Kingdom has changed. Evangelical churches have been reporting significant growth in attendance, as well as more conversions and baptisms. Congregations are more ethnically diverse and people have been coming to church to seek God on their own initiative, often because they’ve been reading the Bible or engaging with the gospel online.

This ‘Quiet Revival’ has shaken people, especially Gen Zers, out of their spiritual wilderness and their isolation from behind a screen.

This group of 18 to 24-year-olds are the most likely to pray regularly, with 40 per cent saying they pray at least monthly.

Here are some takeaways from the survey:

·         Churchgoing Christians have increased from eight per cent to 12 per cent of the population (effectively a jump from 3.7 million to 5.8 million). As many have noted, this is quite astonishing with a Gen Z 56 per cent increase.

·         There are millions more people attending church in the last six years.

·         The number of 18- to 24-year-olds attending church has risen from four per cent to 16 per cent, with young men increasing from four per cent to a remarkable 21 per cent. 

·         The greatest growth has occurred within Catholic and Pentecostal churches.

In 2018, 23 per cent of churchgoers were RC, but now the proportion is 31 per cent.

For Pentecostals, that’s gone from four per cent of churchgoers to 10 per cent.
All this means, the Anglican portion of the churchgoing pie has decreased from 41 per cent of all churchgoers to 34 per cent.

·         It is young people who say they’re more spiritual, with 35 per cent of 18- to 24-year-olds saying there’s “definitely a God/gods or some higher power”.

·         Churchgoing amongst Gen Z is more ethnically diverse.

·         Those who attend church report higher life satisfaction and better connection to their communities than those who don’t.

·         Gen Z Church goers are more likely to give to a charity, or a foodbank than those who do not attend church.

·         Gen Zers are finding meaning in church for their loneliness, loss of purpose in life and mental health.

·         62 per cent claim to be ‘very’ or ‘fairly’ spiritual. Younger people are much more likely than older people to be positive about people sharing their faith, reading the Bible or having spiritual practices.

·         40 per cent say they pray regularly or at least monthly.

·         34 per cent said they would attend church if they were invited by a friend or family member.

·         And Bible reading is also going up – 67 per cent of regular church attenders now read scripture weekly, rising from 54 per cent in 2018.

Dr Krish Kandiah sums up this ‘Quiet Revival’:

Young people are returning to the church which breaks every stereotype of only old white women attending church. Gen Z young people are feeling more connected, finding new friends and are more at peace with themselves.

Can’t argue with that.

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