Progressive Spirituality?

A Girl playing with dollies and angels /spirits surround her. A lovely notion far removed from the daily politics of Life in the US. All too often we forget the other worldliness that we learned about in churches or from other cultures whose connections to the spirit of plants, animals, air, natural phenomena.
Much discussion from the political progressives do not address the human need for a spiritual dimension in our public discusssions. A report on the reasons for the more "humane" progressives will not win politically even though it does a brilliant job of addressing discourse analysis and the ways that politicians use language against people of strong convictions for the betterment of humans on this planet. Nary a word of spirituality is mentioned for it is no longer seen as essential for modern or postmodern life. Yet at unseen levels we seem to hunger for spirituality and so this kind of discourse while useful on some levels lacks the healing uses for which language can be used.

The HuntingtonPost's entry by Kathleen Reardon is a very good example of what I mean. Reach article through title of this post.