The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)
“A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.”
Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 171
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"Answer #3" at his official website. http://www.chickcorea.com/from_chick.html
Context: I believe that any "awareness" of life is "spiritual" since awareness can only be a quality of the spirit not of the material world or of matter and machines. Only a spiritual being has awareness. But if you mean "spiritual" in the sense of a kind of "celebration of Life", then yes, I write music to celebrate life. I think most artists do, no matter how they themselves describe it. It's the joy of creating. It's a way of life.