Religious Awakening You Won't Hear About From the Pulpit

Among clergy and sociologists, film directors and songwriters it's become practically a matter of cliche that Americans are searching for wholehearted belonging and not finding their needs met -- the phenomenon, in short, behind the phrase "spiritual but not religious." These Americans are setting out on an open-ended quest, on their own or with trusted friends, to find meaning. More than a third have changed their religion of record in search of what they could not find in their faith of origin. Others are finding their way to humanist communities where they study, reflect and find fellowship in modes not dissimilar to those of churches, synagogues, mosques and temples