today on the radio, also to replay online or download as mp3 file,
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/03/01/leaving-religion-behind
"Spiritual but not religious," is the box that an awful lot of Americans are checking these days. Into God, as they define God. Into soul. Into spirituality. But not, very often, in a house of worship. In church.
Big church historian Diana Butler Bass as been watching the trend, along with a whole lot of worried church-goers, for many years. Now she's ready to call it, in her faith and beyond. The end of the old. The birth of something powerful and new.
This hour, On Point: God after religion. The end of church, she says, and the birth of a new spiritual awakening.
author of the new book Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening.
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