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Church for ‘nones’: Meet the anti-dogma spiritual collectives emerging across the US

These spiritual communities discard doctrine, prefer questions over answers and have no intention of converting anybody to anything.

Pastor Cody Deese leads a service at Vinings Lake in Mableton, Ga., near Atlanta, Dec. 10, 2023. (RNS photo/Kathryn Post)

Atlanta (RNS) — Twenty minutes outside downtown Atlanta, Vinings Lake sits along a humming thoroughfare connecting Veterans Memorial Highway to the affluent suburbs north of the city. With its white steeple and brick exterior, it could easily be mistaken for another Southern Baptist church adorning America’s Bible Belt.

But façade aside, the community no longer thinks of itself strictly as a church.

“We’re an ever-evolving...

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