You Are Not Your Own Substack

You Are Not Your Own Substack

A Culture of Chronic Doubt

And how the virtue of Faith can help us endure

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O. Alan Noble
May 01, 2026
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Last year, Freya India wrote a moving essay entitled “Why We Doubt Everything” for her Substack, GIRLS (which I highly recommend). In it the article, she argues that it’s not so much that the younger generation has lost faith, but that they never were taught to have faith to begin with. She calls Gen Z “a chronically doubtful generation,” d…

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