November nights / Coleman Barks -- The calling of Saint Matthew / Annie Boutelle -- New Year's Eve / Carl Dennis -- Let it go / Brian Doyle -- The nature of evil / Terry Eagleton -- Life studies / Adam Gopnik -- No ideas but in things / Jessica Greenbaum -- Antiphons / Malcolm Guite -- Whose Buddhism is truest? / Linda Heuman -- Forgiveness / Kathleen Hill -- The custodian / Edward Hirsch -- In daylight, I turned on the lights / Jane Hirshfield -- When I was blind / Edward Hoagland -- Maximum India / Pico Iyer -- The teachable moment / Mark Jarman -- Welcome to Wedgwood / Charles Johnson -- Unbuilt Jerusalem / James Lasdun -- Deep intellect / Sy Montgomery -- Oriental aspects of Occidental faith / Francesca Aran Murphy -- The man-made messiah / David Novak -- God's engineer / P.J. O'Rourke -- Scorsese on the Cross / Vince Passaro -- Incarnational theology / Melissa Range -- A many-storied monastic / Patrick Henry Reardon -- What we may be / Marilynne Robinson -- The Islamic case for religious liberty / Abdullah Saeed -- Spiritual bouquet / Nicholas Samaras -- The sanest man ever / Algis Valiunas -- All war, all the time / George Weigel -- From the Book of Knowledge / Cynthia Zarin.
Summary:
Penguin's yearly offering of outstanding essays and poetry on faith and spirituality. Every year, the acclaimed Best Spiritual Writing series offers readers the opportunity to explore the most intriguing work on spirituality published in the past year.
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