The best spiritual writing 2012 / edited by Philip Zaleski ; introduction by Philip Yancey.

Foreword / Philip Zaleski -- Introduction / Philip Yancey -- Fearful symmetries / Stephen M. Barr -- The company of drawings / John Berger -- The ant / Robert Bly -- Frat house for Jesus / Peter J. Boyer -- All souls night / Katharine Coles -- Gold / Billy Collins -- The debacle / Andrew Cooper -- The search / Kate Farrell -- World as it is / Eamon Grennan -- In nomine / A.G. Harmon -- Wonderlust / Tony Hiss -- A figure in black and gray / Joe Hoover -- A chapel is where you can hear something beating below your heart / Pico Iyer -- The Few, the proud, the chosen / Sam Jacobson -- Bularian icon of the Last Supper / Mark Jarman -- Where the Buddha woke up / Noa Jones -- Burial cloth removed / Jill Noel Kandel -- Dream of ink brush calligraphy / Karen Ah-hwei Lee -- What it is that feeds us / B.K. Loren -- Apparitions & visitations / Paul Myers -- Harmony of heaven, earth and man--harmony of civilizations / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Why are the Jews chosen? / David Novak -- The next incarnation / Evan Osnos -- Thinking again / Marilynne Robinson -- Saint Cesar of Delano / Richard Rodriguez -- Rescuing evil / Ron Rosenbaum -- Are you now or have you ever been / Sherod Santos -- Pears, unstolen / Betsy Sholl -- Tritones / George Steiner -- The day continues lovely / C.K. Williams -- Contributors' notes -- Other notable spiritual writing of the year.