indeed, religious experience is the key concept.  The church is theologically changing. This is not a hidebound church.  I can see that for a free thinker like myself the church has been an enemy of thought, as they have placed Kant, Hume, Sartre, Descartes, Locke, Hobbes and many others on their list of banned books. They have been enemies of free inquiry at times. This has changed in the last 50 years and I hope it keeps changing.