Millennial spirituality

Re “Faith? There's an app for that,” op-ed, June 7

Stephen Asma is right. We millennials are less interested in joining the church and more likely to categorize ourselves as a so-called “none,” one of the near quarter of the population that claim no specific religious affiliation.

We’re making a new way. You can be uncomfortable with that. But please stop arguing that millennials need to change rather than realizing that, perhaps, the church, mosque, temple, the religious and our understanding of religion need to.

Part of the problem is that the organized religion that young people have been raised on are ideologies that emphasize belief over action.

This generation is one of action and they are leading the charge on civic and political engagement

That’s why we mark “none” on the surveys about religious identity. The religion we’ve been raised on isn’t the idealized version Asma claims offers fulfillment through communal action. We’ve had to build that kind of spirituality for ourselves.

Unfortunately, we’ve had to call it “none.” Payton Hoegh

Sylmar