Our lives seem better, and in many respects this is true. There are no island continents in a world of electronic technologies, no places left to hide or to withdraw from the communities of men and women. At the same time, we talk very little about the spiritual implications of such things, of the fears they touch in the center of us, or the once commonplace theological images they shatter. The spiritual life, because it must be lived in the present to be real, is anything but esoteric and abstract. Culture and spirituality, in fact, are of a piece.
Culture creates the framework within which the spiritual life comes to be and grow.
So we return to the questions posed at the outset by T. S. Eliot. It is our culture to shape. And the time to begin is now. In Search of Belief . A Feminist Spirituality for Women and Men .