Episcopal Church Foundation Vital Practices - Blogs

January 27, 2014

Daily Cake

Have your faith and eat it too.

That’s the premise of a cool blog committed to supporting young adults in The Episcopal Church.

Founders of thedailycake.org gathered in Cincinnati this past weekend to review the past year and to plan for the new one. Their goal is provide a place for conversation and commiseration, a place for young adults to talk and read and rant about being lonely, about growing up, and about faith. It’s serious stuff without the site taking its self too seriously. They, well, want to have their faith, and eat it to.

Across the country, groups are confabbing about how to attract young people, about how to stem the depressing decline of participation in the institutional church. Lots of different people think they have the answers, and they’re willing to tell you, whether or not you asked to hear them.

What makes this group different, I think, is how committed they are to creating space for a conversation, not a one-way sermon. A look through the blog reveals the diversity of posts—from the random, hilarious, or bizarre to deep and thoughtful, from quirky videos to rich discussion about 18th-century poets. And they want to make it better, broader, deeper, more engaged in the community, more engaging in content.

Here’s where you come in: Follow the blog. Offer to write. Make comments and link to it from your own blog, Facebook page, or Twitter feed. The more people who learn about the daily cake, the more opportunity it has to develop as a community, a place for the lone young adult at St. Switham’s to not feel alone.

We do a lot of talking about wanting young adults in the church. Here’s one way to take action.