The Best American Spiritual Writing 2008 Author:Philip Zaleski (Editor) Introduced by President Jimmy Carter, the latest edition of this "excellent annual" (America) not only showcases some of the finest essays and poems of the year but also offers astute perceptions on faith and spirituality in modern life that are universal, timeless, and yet deeply personal. — Faith and quantum theory / Stephen M. Barr -... more »-
Sabbaths 2005 / Wendell Berry --
Jerusalem Manor / Ben Birnbaum --
The end of Advent / Joseph Bottum --
Who am I? / John Coats --
Lost river / David James Duncan --
A man for all reasons / Paul Elie --
Aubade in autumn / Peter Everwine --
Lullaby / Kate Farrell --
Orthodox paradox / Noah Feldman --
Meeting the Chinese in St. Paul / Natalie Goldberg --
Carol of the infuriated hour / David Brendan Hopes --
Einstein & faith / Walter Isaacson --
The magic mountain / Pico Iyer / The closest to love we ever get / Heather King --
The domestic arrangement / Maxine Kumin --
About a poem / Ursula K. Le Guin --
Cell group / James Loney --
I met a man who has seen the ivory-billed woodpecker, and this is what he told me / Nancy Lord --
Into the oblivion / Thomas Lynch --
Keeping faith / Adam Minter --
A university of a particular kind / Richard John Neuhaus --
XYZ / Robert Pinsky --
Atheism is wasted on the nonbeliever / Richard Rodriguez --
The abyss / Oliver Sacks --
I'm never sure about the word "apotheosis" / Nick Samaras --
The saint of Worcester / Mathew N. Schmalz --
Only a mother's love / Kurt Shaw --
Living / Jason Shinder --
Schooling at home / Sally Thomas --
Signs of design / J. Scott Turner --
Madurai / John Updike --
Love bade me welcome / Christian Wiman --
Littlefoot, 14 / Charles Wright --
Why Holocaust denial undermines Islam / Hamza Yusuf« less