"Being Spiritual But Not Religious: Values, Virtues, and Compassionate Living"
Wed, May 07
|Green Bay
This lecture will be presented by Dr. Morgan Shipley, Foglio Endowed Chair of Spirituality and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State University.


Time & Location
May 07, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Green Bay, 2418 Leon Bond Dr, Green Bay, WI 54311, USA
About the event
Over the past two decades, a series of public surveys highlight a steady decrease in religious participation (42% in 2000–2003 to 30% in 2021–2023, Gallup) and corresponding rise of the religiously unaffiliated (28% of the American population, Pew). Uniquely, these trends correlate with heightened interest in spirituality. While religious membership or affiliation might be down, seven out of ten U.S. adults describe themselves as spiritual in some way, with at least 22% of Americans describing themselves as spiritual but not religious (Pew). As practitioners, scholars, and everyday people struggle to understand what all this means, a common response among the religious is to deny the ethical coherency of the spiritual but not religious, suggesting that spirituality without religion is vapid at best, downright dangerous at the extremes. This talk intervenes by exploring spirituality as a vital component of humanity, as the ways individuals encounter and enact their shared humanness. Derived…