Hearing the call across traditions : readings on faith and service / edited by Adam Davis ; foreword by Eboo Patel : editorial team Dimitra Tasiouras, Elizabeth Lynn and Noah Silverman.
Appendix III. Guide to readings by faith tradition and genre. Why I make Sam go to church: from Traveling mercies: some thoughts on faith / Anne Lamott -- Why the Buddha had good digestion: from Avadānaśataka -- In praise of generosity: from the Rig Veda -- Solidarity, reciprocity, and sanctity: three selections from Who is man? / Abraham Joshua Heschel -- Handful of dates: in The wedding of Zein and other stories / Tayeb Salih -- Subjective necessity of social settlements: in Twenty years at Hull-House / Jane Addams -- Action and non-action / Chuang-Tzu -- Isaiah 58:2-12 -- Three poems / Shih Te -- Luke 10:25-37 -- Miserliness: from Purification of the heart / Hamza Yusuf -- River: in A good man is hard to find and other stories / Flannery O'Connor -- Compassion: from The essential Dalai Lama: his important teachings / Dalai Lama -- Joy of giving joy: from On the genealogy of morality / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Selfless service: from the Bhagavad Gita -- Surahs 93 and 107: from the Qurʼan -- Church: in The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Section 50: from Gitanjali: song offerings / Rabindranath Tagore -- Between / Harold M. Schulweis -- Base of all metaphysics: in Leaves of grass / Walt Whitman -- pt. 2. Whom do I serve? Good traveler has no fixed plans: in the Tao te ching / Lao-Tzu -- Faces of poverty: in Loaves and fishes / Dorothy Day -- Difference between / Hafiz -- Man to send rain clouds / Leslie Marmon Silko -- If not higher / I.L. Peretz -- Same inside: in Talking to my body / Anna Swir -- Problem of old Harjo / John Oskison -- Meditation on compassion and Not two: from Peace is every step / Thich Nhat Hanh -- Legend of the lowly devotee: in The Tiruvaçagam -- Ruth 1-4:22 -- Mexican-American and the church / Cesar Chavez -- Walk: from Leaving Yuba City / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Shopping-bag lady: in Alma / Linda Gregg -- Camel driver and the adder / Bidpai -- Rich young man on the road: from Salvation: scenes from the life of St. Francis / Valerie Martin -- Say yes quickly / Rumi -- His grace / Mikhail Naimy -- pt. 3. How do I serve? God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Secret of work: in The complete works, I:3 / Swami Vivekananda -- Reb Yozifl and the contractor: in Inside Kasrilevke / Sholom Aleichem -- First days of spring / Ryokan -- Sitting with the dead: in A bit on the side / William Trevor -- Mercy: the stamp of creation / Umar Faruq Abd-Allah -- Yajna, welfare, and service: from a letter to Narandas Gandhi, October 28, 1930 / Mahatma Gandhi -- Reflections on Gandhi: from the Partisan review / George Orwell -- Levels of giving: in Mishneh Torah / Maimonides -- Buddha's last instruction: in House of light / Mary Oliver -- North light: a recollection in the present tense: in Ellis Island and other stories / Mark Helprin -- Come out and give something / Rumi -- Pure in heart: in Revelation / Peggy Payne -- House / Gabriela Mistral -- Proclamation of a national fast-day / Abraham Lincoln -- Yogi dyes his garments / Kabir -- Why I make Sam go to church: from Traveling mercies: some thoughts on faith / Anne Lamott -- Appendix I. Toward action: The Interfaith Youth Core model for interfaith reflection and service -- Appendix II. Questions for discussion -- Appendix III. Guide to readings by faith tradition and genre.
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