Religion-Outside-The-Box
Spiritualigious tools for a life of more compassion, kindness, and love.
Spiritualigious tools for a life of more compassion, kindness, and love.
An online community of the theologically-promiscuous. Led by a Jewish rabbi. Seeking meaning, reason, and connection.
✅ Belovedness
🚫 Dogma, Shame, Guilt
Hi. I'm Rabbi Brian.
Call me rB.
I stopped working for organized religion after I fantasized about God asking humanity, “So, why did you all make teams?” I started Religion-Outside-The-Box with a blog in 2006, and we’ve grown to a prison ministry, support groups, zoom services, an award-winning book, online meditation, and a sort of weekly newsletter.
Spiritualigious? I made up the word as the words spiritual + religious have baggage associated with them.and I wanted us to keep our eyes on the goal.
Look around. Enjoy.
rB
Rabbi Brian’s Highly Unorthodox Gospel
My 
award-winning 
book isn’t available 
on Amazon 
— it’s only available here 
.
It’s an innovative 
FUN blend of self-help 
, memoir 
, exposé on religion, and a theology 
book — complete with activity exercises 
, fill-in-the-blanks 
, and even a sticker chart 
.
LINKS, LINKS, & MORE LINKS
Spiritualigiousness.
Watch / Join
SATURDAY
SERVICES
I struggled, after leaving my pulpit job, to find a spiritual or religious community in which I felt comfortable — one free from dogma, creed, and particularism. So, I made ROTB’s Online Saturday Service—8am PT Saturday.
It’s not sage on a stage. It’s more like a wisdom-seeking, Zoom, 12-step meeting in which I facilitate discussion between people of all backgrounds and from all over the globe.
I hope reading these words make you feel like you are invited. I’d love to have you join in — or watch from here.
rB
8am PT — SaturdaysrB
Watch, Listen, or Participate
ROTBWatch online Watch on ROTB.org |
PhoneListen by phone Call to Listen
(253) 215-8782 |
ZoomWatch and participate Join on ZoomMeeting ID: 947 0828 8275 |
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Refractory Anxiety
I am supposed to arrive at the wedding rehearsal at 4 p.m. I planned on arriving 15–20 minutes early. Because I don’t like being late.
No words. No words.
To offset our discomfort about our upcoming visit to the Terezín (in German: Theresienstadt) concentration camp/ghetto, Emmett and I fall into making dark jokes. Gallows
Has anyone seen my keys?!
Jane and the kids misplace keys. Not me. I don’t. I always return my key to the keyrack. That’s where they go. When the key
