Newsweek has a halfway decent article about the state of spirituality in America today. Some decent stuff in it about people looking for personal experiences of god. In that vein,

Today, then, the real spiritual quest is not to put another conservative on the Supreme Court, or to get creation science into the schools. If you experience God directly, your faith is not going to hinge on whether natural selection could have produced the flagellum of a bacterium. If you feel God within you, then the important question is settled; the rest is details.

The article describes the typical spiritual person in America today as having “a thirst for transcendence too powerful to be met by just one religion.” Definitely worth checking out.