Christians call the Spiritual being God. Muslims refer to their Spiritual being as Allah. Christianity and Islam are the two largest religions in the world. Religious people are spiritual because they take their religion seriously but not all spiritual people are religious. Spiritual people who are not religious do not need a church building or a mosque to connect to God or Allah.

Spiritual people who are not religious do not need a set of beliefs or faith to be spiritual. Spiritual people who are not religious are inquisitive, not judgmental, and practice equality and mutuality. One of the biggest differences between religious and spiritual people centers around what is considered true. For Christians, the source of truth is the Bible. For Muslims, the source of truth is the Quran. Christians believe God reveals God in the words of the Bible. Some Christians believe God stopped revealing God when the Bible was completed.

A nonreligious Spiritual person may encounter God, Allah, or the Great Spirit in a movie, a song, a book, or a walk in the woods. Movies connect me to the invisible, intangible world known as the Spiritual world.

In my seminary ethics class, I was assigned a project entitled, Should the church ordain Gays and Lesbians as pastors and elders.  The professor suggested I should watch a 1994 movie called Priest.  Priest is about a homosexual priest who is in the closet.  A student reveals in the confessional that her father forces her to have sex with him.  The movie is about the struggle the priest has with his own secret and the secret of the incest victim.  The end of the movie is a communion service where two priests are offering communion to the church. All of the church members go to the straight priest.  The only person who gets in line to receive the communion from the gay priest is the incest victim.  I entered the spiritual realm at that moment.  I was forever changed.  My journey took a turn.  Since then, I have found connection to the Spiritual world in music, in art, in others, and yes, in movies.