Evangelical Christian leaders are alarmed teens are abandoning their faith in droves. The concern is stoked by a controversial claim that if current trends continue, only 4% of teens will be "Bible-believing Christians" as adults. That's down from 35% of baby boomers and 65% of the Builder generation. Today's culture trivializes religion and normalizes secularism. It may not be that young evangelicals are abandoning their faith so much as they are abandoning the institutional church. Notre Dame Professor Christian Smith, an American evangelical specialist, is skeptical about the 4% stat. It came from a poll commissioned by Southern Baptist leader Thom Rainer and appeared in his book The Bridger Generation. Rainer thinks the methodology was reliable, but the poll is 10 years old. In fact Evangelical teens are more likely to remain involved with their faith than mainline Protestants, Catholics, Jews and teens of almost every other religion.