VATICAN CITY, March 1 (Reuters) - Roman Catholicism faces a serious challenge from the rising number of people who believe in God but no longer see ...

Alan Miller hopes for a humanist culture full of "inspiring alternatives" that "inspire and engage," and in which people's ethics and behaviors are built on, as he puts it, "something beyond themselves." It seems to me that this will require making room for SBNRs.

Selecting a superficial mixture of "nice-feeling" items from Yoga to a slice of Zen and a moment of Tao is hardly progressive as far as options for humanity is concerned. They have jettisoned the hard work, diligence and observation of organized religion for a me-me-me what-ever kind of lifestyle

It has been rising up in the hearts and minds of individual seekers ever since the days of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and it's been spreading like kudzu through the soul of America.

Religion is that part of our being that gives expression to the human craving for transcendence. In our often ugly world, religion does not tell us what is but what should be.

Religion, in its essence, is simply the institution that has been established by human beings to collect spiritual teachings and practices in order to strengthen our connection to Spirit.

By Cathy Lynn Grossman USA Today When Ben Helton signed up for an online dating service, under "religion" he called himself "spiritually apathetic...

This isn't always an easy position to hold. If religious leaders are unhappy about how many people identify as SBNR, perhaps a new category of religious/spiritual experience is necessary.

Why is it that sometimes I feel like my religion is giving me junk food for the soul? Why does my religion confuse me about God and encourage me to deny my truth about how I really feel?

Being privately spiritual but not religious just doesn't interest me. There is nothing challenging about having deep thoughts all by oneself.