SBNR?

SBNR means Spiritual But Not Religious. And millions of Americans identify themselves in such a way. There is great diversity of beliefs among the spiritual but not religious, but we here at The Living Hour are in full alignment with the Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) when they say:

We reject the notion that all that is real or all that can be known is that which can be subject to empirical justification or can be measured. On the contrary, we know that love, kindness, generosity, awe and wonder, art, ethics, and music are just some of the valuable parts of life that cannot be understood or adequately captured by science. We call those aspects spiritual. But there is a huge problem when social change movements stay away from anything that calls itself spiritual.

We believe that many of the secular movements that exist in the world today actually have deep spiritual underpinnings, but often they are themselves unaware of those foundations, unable or unwilling to articulate them, and sometimes hold a knee-jerk antagonism to explicit spiritual or religious language. This antagonism limits their effectiveness, though it derives from a legitimate anger at the way that the language of spirituality and religion has been sometimes used to justify war, oppression, sexism, racism, homophobia, ecological indifference, or insensitivity to the suffering of the poor and the homeless of the world.

The Network of Spiritual Progressives