Discover Spiritual Innovation

Underpinning the world’s crises is a crisis of spirit. To turn the tide, we need new ways to address spiritual longings. We need spiritual innovation.

You may not have thought to call yourself a spiritual innovator—but if you’re creating something that helps people feel more connected, whole, or attuned to something beyond themselves, then you may just be one! 

Spiritual innovation is simply a name for what happens when people like you create new ways to nurture the soul. It may happen within religious traditions, in secular settings, or somewhere in-between. Whether you’re building community, designing rituals, or hosting digital spaces for reflection and healing, you’re answering a quiet but profound call: to meet the deep spiritual longings of our time. 

Meet a handful of spiritual innovators in this video to learn more!

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Discover Spiritual Innovation
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Illuminating Spiritual Innovation

Global landscape report on spiritual innovation by the team at Sacred Design Lab. Featuring vignettes of spiritual innovators and field-wide questions and frameworks for spiritual innovation.

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Spiritual Innovation Within and Outside Traditions

A conversation on how spiritual innovation flows both within and beyond religious institutions.

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Spiritual Infrastructure of the Future at Bryn Mawr

This initiative at Bryn Mawr College convenes scholars, religious leaders, journalists, students, and educators to explore and map the evolving spiritual infrastructure of the future—including changes in congregational closures, spiritual innovation, and religious leadership—through research, public engagement, and professional development.

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What is spiritual innovation?