The Pew Survey into Religious Attitudes among Americans shows a shift over the last thirty years. Thirty years ago the majority of Episcopalians and other Christians form the mainline traditions ticked the box 'religious but not spiritual' . Today the majority, tick the box 'religious and spiritual'. I imagine that Sonia would not have welcomed her priest questioning her about her sense of spirituality. For one thing she would have told me to mind my own business! For her and her generation such things are after all, private! Yet, this is where I detect that intuitive humility. To think about having a personal relationship with God would have struck her as too self-centered a preoccupation. I imagine her asking:  Why should God with all the things God has to attend to waste time noticing me? 

For those of you enjoying some time away I hope it continues to be a time of relaxation and re-creation. For those back in town or who have never left - see you in Church this Sunday!

Yours in Christ,