Newsweek Goes Spiritual

Newsweek has a series of articles on spirituality in the US.

Here's a quote I like from the profile on "Green Religion."

"My identity is not as an environmentalist," [Allen Johnson] says. "It's as a Christian. Because I am Christian, I should be involved with social justice, the poor, the needy. Environmentalism is one thing in my circle, but it's not my center."

I think what's most interesting and exciting from this survey and the accompanying set of articles is that there are a wide variety of ways to practice religion in the US, and they are not all what we expect them to be. I was surprised by the idea of a multicultural mosque, for example, or an environmentalist fundamentalist, quoted above. There is a lot more creativity and movement in the middle ground than the politicos might have us believe. This suggests to me that God's creative Spirit is in fact still at work.