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
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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.
The weekly, 8am PT service is 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.
💙rB
I thank you for looking at this site.
💙rB
Every Monday morning, except for the last week of the month, I email a heartfelt, spiritualigious newsletter to member’s in-box.
The name — 77% Weekly — comes from this ratio of articles I send (40) to the number of weeks in a year (52). It’s a reminder that striving for 100% is too much.
ROTB’s 3.5K+ members enjoy starting their week with my words. (I am truly honored.)
Sign-up for FREE — unsubscribe any time — and you’ll be ROTB’s newest member.
Where Love Meets Us
5:6 WHERE LOVE MEETS US One day, after swearing me to secrecy, a friend, stammering and sheepish, admitted she was experimenting with wearing
I know better
I know better. I know better. But I made a mistake. I wish I had known better at the time.
Teaching About Love (I hope)
Portland, Oregon Winter, 2012 Emmett, age five, is in the backseat, and I’m driving. We approach a red light, where there’s a man