SPIRITUAL BUT NOT RELIGIOUS: A HUMANIST PERSPECTIVE

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SPIRITUAL BUT NOT RELIGIOUS: A HUMANIST PERSPECTIVE
By Chaplain Binyamin Biber
November 14, 2012
http://www.americanhumanist.org/HNN/issue/details/2012-11-spiritual-but-not-religious-a-humanist-perspective



"I see in naturalistic (vs supernaturalistic) approaches to "spirituality" discourses of inspiration, exploration, elevation, connectedness, expansiveness, fulfillment, self-actualization of human potential, love beyond simple drives, enlightenment, progress, and the horizons of the imagination."

Chaplain Binyamin Biber founded the Humanist Chaplaincy at American University in 2011. He is an ordained Humanistic Rabbi who has for a decade served Machar, the Washington DC-based congregation for Secular Humanistic Judaism. He is president of the Association of Humanistic Rabbis in North America and a board member of the Humanist Society, the professional organization of chaplains and celebrants of the American Humanist Association.