Grace Without God: The Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age
b'Show #173 | Guest: Katherine Ozment | Show Summary: American culture is seeing two apparently opposed trajectories: the science that religious belief improves quality of life, and the statistics that show Americans are increasingly rejecting organized religion. But that doesn\\u2019t necessarily add up to a rejection of spirituality. The same people who\\u2019ve stopped going to the chapel or stopped tithing at the church are finding their own rituals and belief systems. Drawing on hodgepodge of traditional worship trappings \\u2013 incense, candles, prayers \\u2013 this \\u201cdo it yourself\\u201d faction is finding meaning outside the four walls of mainstream religion.
Katherine Ozment\\u2019s book \\u201cGrace Without God\\u201d grew out of a desire to answer her son\\u2019s profound questions about life\\u2019s meaning. In the book and in her many articles, she probes the common ground between the secular and religious, and the reach of these questions into politics and larger culture.'