Our Children, Our Future? the Equal Time for Freethought Interview with Lauren Sandler (Interview‪)‬

LAUREN SANDLER WAS A PRODUCER of cultural features and news segments at National Public Radio. Her 2006 book, Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement, found its genesis when, producing a series for All Things Considered on youth and religion in the United States, Sandier happened upon a nascent Christian youth movement stirring in group houses and church basements. She left NPR to become a fellow at NYU's Cultural Reporting and Criticism program--in which she now teaches--and has written for the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Nation, and Salon. Sandler was interviewed on December 17, 2006, on the WBAI radio program Equal Time for Freethought. Producer Barry F. Seidman adapted the following segment of that interview especially for the Humanist. ETFF: Your book goes into an element of the growing evangelical movement in this country that most people aren't familiar with. You start off by stating that any great cultural or political shift doesn't fully take hold until it takes hold among the youth. Why is that?