About a year ago, a Pew Research Center report revealed that a rapidly growing number of Americans—20 percent of the public and one-third of adults younger than 30—didn’t identify with any religion.
For Jacob Gemmell (pictured) and his friends, church had become a routine of sorts. “We just didn’t feel like church connected with us anymore,” he says. “Church seemed more of a production rather than a celebration of God.”
