The spirituality unfolding in today’s world is bottom-up spirituality; it is a spirituality of ‘hands on’, getting not just our hands, but our faces, dirty as we struggle at the coalface of the brutal and cruel world of our time. Struggle is a key word for a contemporary credible spirituality. It remains phoney and unreal if not rooted in the real issues of the human struggle to grow and to be wise, to learn and to love. In a special way it seeks to engage with the cultural, political and economic forces which fuel the fiercely competitive and manipulative world in which we live….
Reclaiming Spirituality by Diarmuid O’Murchu, p.117.