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People Are Not Losing Their Religious Needs, But They Are Going To Three Places To Get Their Needs Met. One Is To Conservative Churches, Which, For All Their Social Benightedness, Nevertheless Do Present Their Congregations With A Different View Of Reality. Second, They Are Going To Asian Religions. Third, They Are Going To The New Age, Which When I'm Feeling Cynical I Refer To As "new Age Frivolity," Because Some Of It Is Rather Flaky.

The Self Is Too Small An Object For Perpetual Enthusiasm.

Poetry Is A Special Use Of Language That Opens Onto The Real. The Business Of The Poet Is Truth Telling, Which Is Why In The Celtic Tradition No One Could Be A Teacher Unless He Or She Was A Poet.

The Crisis That The World Finds Itself In As It Swings On The Hinge Of A New Millennium Is Located In Something Deeper Than Particular Ways Of Organizing Political Systems And Economies.

So Always, If We Look Back, Concern For Face-to-face Morality, And Its Modern Emphasis On Justice As Well, Have Historically Evolved As Religious Issues.