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The Best American Spiritual Writing 2005 (Best American Series)
The Best American Spiritual Writing 2005 - Best American Series Author:Philip Zaleski (Editor) The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. For each volume, the very best pieces are selected by a leading writer in the field, making the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. — The Best American Spiritual Writing 2005 i... more »ncludes
The gift of the call / Christopher Bamford The Acusmata of Pythagoras / Brian Blanchfield Replies to the immediate / Scott Cairns Kaddish / Richard Chess Advent stanzas / Robert Cording Best of intentions / Harvey Cox The emergent mystique / Andy Crouch Joyas voladoras / Brian Doyle The French guy / David James Duncan "You kill it, you eat it" and other lessons from my thrifty childhood / Jean Bethke Elshtain An entomologist's dilemma / Margaret Erhart Sighs too deep for words : on being bad at reading the Bible / Helen Garner A skull in Varanasi, a head in Baghdad / Todd Gitlin When the candle is blown out / Natalie Goldberg Appetite for the absolute / Mary Gordon Pilgrim / Patricia Hampl Gift / Brooks Haxton Self-portrait / Edward Hirsch Dr. King's refrigerator / Charles Johnson Us and them / Maria Poggi Johnson Wonder bread / Heather King The genius / Philip Levine Passed on / Thomas Lynch High fidelity / Bill McKibben To the Gods / W.S. Merwin Kierkegaard for grownups / Richard John Neuhaus Speed / Oliver Sacks The master-disciple relationship / Huston Smith No shadow / Gary Snyder Coveting Luke's faith / Dana Tierney Two short essays / Ptolemy Tompkins The Passion's passionate despisers / Kenneth L. Woodward Wrong notes / Charles Wright Prescience / Franz Wright« less