text: The Good News is that the Spirit has NOT "chosen to abdicate that role"!
  
  You know Alexandra....when I think of Delio and Chardin aND Francis and McElroy and Rohr and so many others...I think of a "diaspora" where the Spirit has simply moved very very broadly across the land....(hanging out I think where possible in some catholic enclaves) but very certainly not limited to such.
  
  I think of the UN Millenial goals for the undeveloped world, folks like Amnesty International and the Southern Poverty Law Center, folks developing simple and cheap ways to provide clean water in third world areas...disaster relief organizations with a long view toward global warming....
  
  I think of inexpressible kindnesses found so often where cancer or other terminal disease is real...
  
  And I am grateful!