In this dialog we spoke with Dan McKanan who serves as the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Senior Lecturer at Harvard Divinity School and is the author of six books, among them Camphill and the Future: Spirituality and Disability in an Evolving Communal Movement (University of California Press, 2020), Eco-Alchemy: Anthroposophy and the History and Future of Environmentalism (University of California Press, 2017) and Prophetic Encounters: Religion and the American Radical Tradition (Beacon Press, 2011), which won the Frederic G. Melcher Book Award. Dan is the head of The Program for the Evolution of Spirituality and we spoke with Dan about the goals of the program and the cultural phenomenon of the growing number and diversity of alternative spiritual movements.