Spirit-ual But Not Religious
You’ve heard it, the phrase “spiritual but not religious.” It’s now part of the pop culture lexicon of our times. It’s cool to be SBNR! In this context “spiritual” is an umbrella term covering whatever one has discovered as a way of connecting to “God.” Typically this entails an inner pursuit of “truth,” “reality,” “depth,” or the like by the individual, often seeking a “peak” experience or some sort of breakthrough from ordinary life to another plane of reality. Even when done with others the focus remains on individual, personal growth. Some have pushed back arguing the opposite – “religious but not spiritual” (RBNS). Most recently Lillian Daniel has offered a multifaceted description of the way of life entailed in in this RBNS in her book, When “Spiritual But...