Cool essay on AmbivaBlog called Spiritual Nomads. Worth checking out for great passages such as this:

It’s for you hard-core wonderers and wanderers – my scattered tribe – that I want to send up a flare, pitch a tent, put out some desert rations. I don’t care what faith you were born into, what you call your higher power, what spiritual disciplines you do or don’t practice: if you viscerally resist having your religion organized for you, if living with your questions is the only form of worship that feels honest and alive to you, you’re one of us. Like many of our biblical forebears, we postmodern pilgrims answered a call to leave the houses of our fathers and strike out for an unknown future. We’re deeply convinced that that call came from the Spirit, and we’re not turning back. But right now a lot of us feel lost, with no promised land in sight. Tradition’s new triumph is our crisis. That means, of course, that it contains both a danger and an opportunity. The danger is that we’ll slowly lose our convictions, or watch them splinter into a thousand consoling little niche cults. The chance, the challenge, is to become fully conscious of those convictions for the first time.

Heheh. Pitch a tent. Sorry, I had a little Beavis & Butthead moment there. I’m over it now. Cool essay though.