The more resources, the more you were engaged; and the more you were engaged, the more viable this spirituality was within the nova effect. It could provide meaning, shape your passages through time, and help your ordinary life be one of individually experienced flourishing. As Mark Chaves has shown, churches in America are polarized in the sense o

Spirituality, for me, is about tapping into the deep sources of our own power and love, and the lifelong challenge of bringing them together in practice.

When it comes to the very practical business of aligning our vision and values with our actions on the word, we look like amateurs, unfamiliar with the tools we need. Spiritual experiences, perspectives and practices are wrongly framed as otherworldly, rather than precious human resources to bring our ideals into being.