{"id":7230,"date":"2008-11-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/11\/17\/the-young-long-for-a-spiritual-life-but-wonder-how\/"},"modified":"2008-11-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T12:00:00","slug":"the-young-long-for-a-spiritual-life-but-wonder-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/11\/17\/the-young-long-for-a-spiritual-life-but-wonder-how\/","title":{"rendered":"The Young Long For A Spiritual Life, But Wonder How"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thenewstribune.com\/tacoma\/24hour\/religion\/story\/535329.html\">www.thenewstribune.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, November 16, 2008: A new survey in the United States finds that 55 percent of young people ages 12 to 25 say they are more spiritual now than two years ago. But nearly one-third of them said they don&#8217;t trust organized religion.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, believed to be the first of its kind in the world, was conducted by the Minneapolis-based Search Institute. The first question was, &#8220;What does it mean to be spiritual?&#8221; There were nine choices, running from &#8220;believing in God&#8221; to &#8220;being true to one&#8217;s inner self.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The good news for faith communities is that 93 percent of the young people surveyed believe there is a spiritual aspect to life. But the disconnect between spirituality and religion was clear. If the youth don&#8217;t feel spiritual in church, where do they? &#8220;Spending time in nature&#8221; topped the list of responses. &#8220;Listening to or playing music&#8221; was No. 2, and &#8220;helping other people or the community&#8221; was third. On the rise in the youth&#8217;s list are yoga and meditation, say the researchers. &#8220;Attending religious services&#8221; was ninth.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.thenewstribune.com MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, November 16, 2008: A new survey in the United States finds that 55 percent of young people,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}