‘Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable, the next-best’, according to the nineteenth-century German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Where, then, does that leave spirituality? Some are perhaps tempted to see it as the polar opposite: the art of the impossible dream, striving always for the unattainable, unprepared to settle for anything less than the best. The approaches to spirituality to be found in the pages of The Way, varied though they are, have, I think, much more in common with Bismarck’s attitude than with this yearning for an unreachable goal. The articles in this issue certainly present aims and methods that it is reasonable to hope might in fact be implemented.
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