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Churchgoing is good for you (even if you don’t believe in God)

Forget being ‘spiritual but not religious’. It’s much better to be religious but not spiritual

21 June 2014

8:00 AM

21 June 2014

8:00 AM

Few people, don’t you find, are as irritating as those who define themselves as Spiritual But Not Religious? There was a riveting  piece in the Sunday Times ‘Style’ magazine last week about them, featuring people who were both fabulously stylish and spiritual. Among the names checked was a shop called Celestine Eleven (‘when you buy a new dress, you’re buying into a beautiful piece of energy’) and a website called Numinous (motto: ‘material girl, mystical world’).

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