Elderly people now make up a significant proportion of the world's population, especially in Western countries. By the year 2020 more people on the planet will be over age 60 than under age 16 for the first time ever. Many of these men and women consider themselves adult seekers looking to open new doors on their spiritual journeys. They are searching for meaning and welcome dialogue with others. They are willing to consider difficult questions and to honor diversity, complexity, paradoxes, and mystery.

Diarmuid O'Murchu is the perfect guide for this examination of faith since he has written widely in matters pertaining to evolutionary faith, reclaiming spirituality, and religion in exile. These themes are of great relevance to the choices and the challenges faced by older Christians as they rework their inherited wisdom. Or as O'Murchu puts it:

"Those in the evolving adult generation also seek to integrate their Christian faith with the big questions facing humanity today: cosmic vision, wholesome earth ecology, economic justice, people-based politics, an end to violence and war, and the transformation of all systems that engender poverty and oppression."

In a lively chapter on "Faith in the Holy Spirit," the author salutes the Spirit in creation, the calling to co-create with Holy Wisdom and to re-imagine the gifts of the Spirit as "relativity, uncertainty, probability, complementarity, non-locality, sychronicity, and change." O'Murchu contends that the major disconnect for the adult faith seeker is between church reality and the challenges of maintaining a vibrant faith every day. The communities which make it through this time of testing will be the ones that are "collaborative, inclusive, and empowering."

We were pleased to see in this book's glimpse of faith in the future a small but substantive call for the churches to wake up to the large and ever-growing role of technology in our lives and to marshal the wisdom and discernment needed to address this important issue. O'Murchu concludes that Christian communities will need to let go of dogmatic certainties and offer society the values of contemplation, listening, and deep dialogue.