Legally it is a tax-exempt, charitable non-profit corporation founded by Michael and Alesia Matson, and Suzanne Grainger. Sociologically, CNR was founded to help humanity transition between its current need for traditional religious institutions, into the time when it will not need them at all. This transition stage is one where, as we see it, individuals are moving from religion to spirituality; where persons are seeking their own, direct experience of the Divine, and refusing to settle for what someone else's experience once might have been.

We have experienced the truth that as persons become secure in their direct experience of the Divine (by whatever name), they no longer require preachers to moralize. They no longer fear God, because they've come to experience Deity as being as close to them as their own life's breath -- and just as inseparable from them. One who is in love with God can't be motivated by fear of that God, or fear of anything else, for that matter. That's the kind of spiritual rebirth we at CNR encourage in every person. We are not a ``Christian'' church. Nor are we Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, or Pagan. Not specifically. It's our experience that the hunger for higher truth is leading humanity to ascend beyond theological intolerance, and into acceptance and respect for a Truth which permeates and transcends all theologies.

CNR is a home for those whom Dr. Carolyn Myss has termed ``modern mystics.'' It is to their ears our song is pitched. We have no monasteries, no convents, no ashrams into which we retreat in order to seek our unitive experiences with the Divine. Instead, our homes are our retreats; our daily lives, the prayer and catechism. CNR was formed to empower, support and interconnect those souls who dare to fly higher in their search for God -- and we intend to keep doing so until there is no longer any need for us.

The nuts and bolts of that support include but are not limited to: energy therapy work, counseling, mentoring, classes, workshops, seminars, a quarterly newsletter, a mailing list and others planned in the future, crisis intervention for those whose lives are rocking apart under the stresses of the new levels of consciousness, and helping to establish local communities (churches) to ease the loneliness that can be so debilitating for many of today's mystics.

We do NOT consider geography or distance to be limitations in this ministry, either. Modern telecommunications and transportation make it reasonable for our reach, and that of the ministers we are training, to exceed our current physical grasp.

We do not hold regular ``church services'' in the way the world currently views such things. Instead we hold EACH day as a sacred gift, and strive to treat it as such. If others, still comfortable with specific symbol sets wish to gather on Easter, Yom Kippur, Samhain, or Kwanzaa to celebrate certain metaphoric significances, we're all for that. In most cases, we can even help.

HOWEVER: In CNR's church canon, which are the bylaws under which we are organized, proselytization is expressly forbidden. Preaching sermons from a pulpit is frowned upon -- we are not here to tell others our truth. We are here to help you find yours.