Will Graham: Young People Are ‘Spiritually Hungry’ for Faith and Connection

May 19, 2025

The Executive Vice President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association says young people are increasingly seeking faith and connection.

Christianity Daily reports that Will Graham, the grandson of the late evangelist Billy Graham, agreed with guest host Rose Tennent on the Sean Hannity Show when she said, “there seems to be a great number of young people right now turning to God.”

Graham referred to recent revival movements taking place at colleges like Asbury University in Kentucky and Auburn University in Alabama and noted that, “most of these aren’t Christian schools, and that’s what’s really unique about this. This is where there’s just some Christians at school, praying that God would come to visit their school and to do a mighty work. And God’s been answering those prayers. And it’s still going on.”

“And there are tens and tens of thousands of college kids coming to know Christ all around our country, and it’s just wonderful to see this taking place,” Graham added.

According to Christianity Daily, Graham also told Tennent, “Bibles are the number one seller in the world, and it’s an incredible book that changes lives, and we’re seeing young people gobble it up,” suggesting that “part of it is because they’re starving for truth.”

Barna’s State of the Church 2025 Initiative says a new study shows that “commitment to Jesus has risen sharply among young men especially,” with a jump of “15 percentage points between 2019 and 2025 among Gen Z men,” and “19 percentage points among millennials.”

Graham told Tennent that young people today are “spiritually hungry” and are seeking “real relationships.”

Graham emphasized that, “The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. It was meant to be lived with another group of believers. And so that’s what they’re finding, especially on college campuses.”

Photo: top, Credit: Billy Graham Evangelical Association