At Christmas the churches are still full.
But otherwise?
In Germany, church members are now in the minority, with more than half a million leaving in the last year alone.
Many people are looking for support and meaning, but then prefer to go on a yoga retreat.
Why is that?
It's about the burning question of what should happen to the formerly influential institution of the church in the future: do we have to move with the times or go against them?
What can the church do to attract young people?
Why doesn't she reflect on her main virtues: welfare and pastoral care, easing the transition between life and death?
That's what the eleventh edition of Junge Minds is all about.
When poverty rises again in the country and fear grows, a spiritual center, a place of retreat for spirit and soul, is missing, perhaps more clearly than in sunny days of prosperity.
So is the crisis also an opportunity for the church?
What does the church have to offer people in the years between confirmation and retirement home?
And is it okay to quit and still get married in a church?
We are talking about this with Anna-Nicole Heinrich, the 26-year-old President of the EKD.