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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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.)
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The Delay
2026 issue #03 — The Delay I’m in my buddy David’s car. He’s driving me from my mom’s apartment in NYC to Newark, NJ, where
Lifeboats. Summer. Bridges. Helpers.
Lifeboats. Summer. Bridges. Helpers. The rapid succession of a toddler-drunk-on-power messes is overwhelming. I’m exhausted by the sheer number of (what seem to me) reprehensible
A Friday Night Tradition
Religiously. Every Friday night, religiously, I do a particular tradition. I do the same ritual religiously every Friday night. I’m not misusing the word religiously