Wisdom's Cry

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about the future of religion.  We are living in an age of solipsism and spiritual materialism that is at odds with the authoritarian past of our faiths.  There has to be a middle ground.Living in the Bootheel of Missouri, there are not many practitioners of Creation Spirituality around.  Adding to that, the Catholics in the area are far more akin to Southern Baptists, so I don't have much support there either.I find myself longing for the community I used to have in Oakland and Frederick, but I know that if I moved to either, it wouldn't be the same.  You can never go home again.Solitary religion or spirituality is dangerousI know that isn't a popular view.  Yes, our relationship with God is intensely personal, but we are meant to grow in a community.  Even the Buddha sent his followers out as a Sangha, even though the practices are so very personal in nature.St Benedict warned against the Sarabaites and the Gyrovagues.“The third kind of monks, a detestable kind, are the Sarab