USC Spiritual Exemplars

This collection of vignettes focuses on those projects and communities that are particularly effective as spiritual innovations—by which we mean they are: 1) impactful in helping people flourish and contribute to the greater good; 2) engaging participants successfully; 3) addressing spiritual longings in particularly relevant and compelling ways. In sharing these vignettes, we seek to highlight projects that achieve excellence in at least one of those arenas of content, engagement, and impact.

This nationally representative survey of 1,500 adults conducted by YouGov presents 5 key themes that will inspire readers to consider intergenerational collaboration as a path to renewed vitality in faith communities. Turns out that cogeneration is an incentive for religiously engaged adults to participate in their faith communities.