Keeping Young Members
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2020 1:58 pm
There was an article in the Salt Lake Tribune by Peggy Fletcher Stack, on the controversy of FAIRMormon's latest series of attack videos. One of the people quoted was an LDS member named Michael Austin from the University of Evansville. What he had to say was very profound and seems to cut to the heart of the problem the Church is experiencing with losing young members.
Most Latter-day Saints “don’t base their religious decisions on DNA evidence or 19th-century history,” he says. “Millennials, like everybody else, go where they feel wanted and accepted.”
If the church can provide such a place, Austin says, “then most people will be charitable in assessing the problem areas of our history.”
If it can’t, he says, it doesn’t really matter what else it does.