Spiritual, Not Religious: The Message of the Social Gospel Grows As More Become Disenchanted With Traditional Religion Still, Believers in a Higher Power Keep Searching for Answers by Pastor Paul J. Bern So-called “experts” call them “unaffiliated,” as in a recent Pew poll, or “nones” — or even just ‘not very religious.’ A 2013 poll by the Public Religion Research Institute divided these groups further into “unattached,” “atheists”, “agnostics,” and “seculars.” That was nine years ago. One…