Enduring Faith: What New Cardus Research Reveals About Christian School Graduates

 

Spiritual formation is central to the mission of Christian schools. Yet in a culture marked by declining religious participation, institutional distrust, and increasing secularization, questions about whether schools meaningfully shape graduates’ long-term faith trajectories have become more pressing. Can schools cultivate patterns of belief and practice that last beyond adolescence and into adulthood? A new Cardus report, Enduring Faith: Patterns of Religious Practice and Values Among Religious School Graduates, explores those questions by examining nearly a decade of data from the Cardus Education Survey (CES).