Kevin Morby Imagines Heaven on Earth in the ‘Little Wide Open’

Kevin Morby Imagines Heaven on Earth in the ‘Little Wide Open’

The phrase “spiritual, not religious” carries a seed of derision that makes it difficult to take seriously. On the surface, it is a simple this-not-that statement. But it can often betray a sense of superiority and exclusion in its implied critique of a practice known for superiority and exclusion. (To be sure, the phrase’s evangelical Christian first cousin, “I’m not religious, I just have a relationship with Jesus,” elicits the same eye rolls …