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International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Abstract

What may be needed, and perhaps now it is a possibility, is a new initiative from some seekers in which they take responsibility for finding and responding to the contemporary prophet who will help them find their ways out of their individual and collective wildernesses so that they will become more effective servants of society. . . . How would Seekers Anonymous do for a name? .. . For those who participate, healing, the sense ofbeing made whole will come from deep involvement with creative work on the structural flaws in our society, work that has both ameliorative and society building consequences. Seekers Anonymous will be religious in the root meaning of that word, re ligio, to rebind: to bridge the separation between persons and the cosmos, to heal the widespread alienation, and to reestablish men and women in the role of servants-healers-of society. -Robert Greenleaf, "On Being a Seeker in the Late Twentieth Century," Seeker and Servant What does it mean to be a spiritual person? Is there a difference between spirituality and religion? Are those who are spiritual always those who find answers, or is the spiritual journey essentially one of grappling with questions? The traditional view is that "spiritual" people are those who have a firm set of answers about the nature of the world. We even say things like, "That person has such strong faith," by which we usually mean that they have strong convictions about a given set of answers. We say someone has the "faith of a child," meaning that they have a wonderfully simple faith, uncontaminated by the complexities of critical thinking. In short, we tend to think of spiritual people as those who have lots of answers and few questions. People who have a great many questions, on the other hand, are dubbed "doubters" or "skeptics."

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