Humanist Chaplain

There are a few different understandings of and approaches to fostering secular spirituality. I am very grateful to Stephen Truscott, a Marist priest and psychologist in Australia who has written "A Model for Practising Spiritual Direction in our Secular Age." (You can find his writing online here ~ Spiritual Direction Secular Age.)

Here is a passage from his writings...

‘fulness’ as shorthand for a spirituality which enables modern... (individuals) to flourish. The correlation of contemporary spirituality with secularism offers a pathway for porous and buffered people to seek fullness in attending the depth of their human experience in spiritual accompaniment.

I am also grateful to Sandra M. Schneiders from the Graduate Theological Union. Her inclusive understanding is expressed in her writings (some of which can be read here ~ Theology and Spirituality)...

spirituality is not concerned solely with the "interior life" as distinguished from or in opposition to bodily, social, political, or secular life. On the contrary, spirituality has something to do with the integration of all aspects of human life and experience. In short, people speaking of spirituality today are talking about something quite different from that which was under discussion in the (past)... I am in complete agreement that, whatever the term means today, it denotes experience.