Grounded: Finding God In The World - A Spiritual Revolution

In Christianity After Religion, Diana Butler Bass explored the spiritual but not religious trend that is gaining popularity. She claimed a new movement was at hand, a spiritual awakening, one that leaves tired religion behind and replaces it with a revitalized spirituality.

Grounded picks up where Christianity After Religion left off. It’s about how people encounter God in a post-religious age. How they find meaning and grounding outside of the church’s walls. It turns away from how the church has traditionally viewed God-as distant, as up in heaven , as far away, and instead shows that we experience God with us, as close as the trees and dirt, and our friends and family, our culture and food and our greatest yearnings. It’s an embodied theology. A theology that starts from the ground-up instead of from heaven-down, and that is shifting the way Christians understand and practice faith.

Through citing trends, news, data, literature, and pop culture, Diana will analyze these changes in the world of church and practice. She’ll also cite spiritual texts, ancient traditions, religious teachers, and her own faith journey to explore the life of faith. Reporting on the changes happening in the church and in communities of faith around the country, she will also show readers how to join the movement to embody this new revitalized spirituality, this deep grounding, in their own spiritual journey and in their community of faith.