1. the misuse of God and religion by the Religious Right,

2. the religio-phobia and hostility to spiritual concerns in some sectors of liberal and progressive culture,

3. the materialism and selfishness that is the Old Bottom Line of American society. The NSP is an organization that will articulate a politics of meaning-emphasizing that human beings have not only material needs but spiritual and "meaning needs" (the need for a life that is connected to a higher purpose than the accumulation of goods or money or power, to have a meaning to our lives that transcends the individualism and materialism of the competitive marketplace).

The NSP is an interfaith organization open to progressive people who are religious, or "spiritual but not religious, " or secular people who understand the need for a politics of meaning and a Spiritual/Religious Left and wish to support efforts to build it.

See the Network of Spiritual Progressives Official Website for more information.