The best American spiritual writing 2005 / Best spiritual writing edited by Philip Zaleski ; introduction by Barry Lopez. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005. - xxvi, 210 p. ; 22 cm. - Annual - 2004- - The best American series. .

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 Erhardt -- 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 -- Kierkgaard 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.

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Spiritual life--Literary collections.
American literature--21st century.

PS509.S62 / B47 2005

810.8/0382