Generation Xers are seeking meaning and substance. At the same time the church is seeking to share Christ's life-giving love and message. If Generation X and the church are to mutually benefit one another, they must develop a two-way flow of trust, commitment, understanding, and enthusiasm. Jeremy Langford, editor, age 28 I know it is difficult to take us seriously sometimes, particularly given the many bad raps we have been given in the press. But rumor has it that the Holy Spirit, rarely one to observe canons of propriety, occasionally hangs out with us.
Popular culture is important.
I do not mean that you should take pop culture soberly, though. In fact, many of us have a playful, ironic, or irreverent attitude toward our favorite songs, movies, sitcoms, comic books, and so on. Mass. Much of the meaning generated by popular culture in our lives has something of a subterranean effect on us, while other parts of it we are conscious of. Pluralism can be a virtue. Raised on a steady diet of adult-themed or simply amoral video games, rock idols, and movies, for example, we are incapable of judging right from wrong.