Bibliograph

The best American spiritual writing 2006, edited by Philip Zaleski ; introduction by Peter J. Gomes

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Label

The best American spiritual writing 2006, edited by Philip Zaleski ; introduction by Peter J. Gomes

Language

eng

Bibliography note

"Notable spiritual writing of 2005": p. [307]-308

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The best American spiritual writing 2006

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

71813437

Responsibility statement

edited by Philip Zaleski ; introduction by Peter J. Gomes

Series statement

Best American series

Table Of Contents

A fitting desire / Rick Bass -- Renewing husbandry / Wendell Berry -- The big tent / Peter J. Boyer -- On making The martyrdom of Saint Polycarp: writing the true icon / Scott Cairns -- After strange gods / Michael Chabon -- Pipistrelle / Mark Doty -- Eddy / Brian Doyle -- A manna for all seasons / Anthony Esolen -- The cellular church / Malcolm Gladwell -- Moral fiction / Mary Gordon -- The tragic fate of John Ruskin / Rochelle Gurstein -- Arguing with Milosz in Vilnius / Sam Hamill -- This soul has six wings / Jessie Harriman -- The glue is gone / Edward Hoagland -- Music's missing magic / Miles Hoffman -- Waking / Linda Hogan -- Reading Ruskin in Los Angeles / Charlotte Innes -- Into the wonder / Alan Jacobs -- The kosher conversion / Corby Kummer -- Our near-death experience / Thomas Lynch -- After 9/11 / Charles Martin -- The secret of the self / Wilfred M. McClay -- Our American Babylon / Richard John Neuhaus -- Are you there, God? / Katherine Paterson -- Seven penitential psalms / V. Penelope Pelizzon -- The lost Buddhas of Bamiyan / Matthew Power -- Ishi / Louis Simpson -- Ten (possible) reasons for the sadness of thought / George Steiner -- Just power / Helen Tworkov -- Angel bones / John Updike -- The church's way of speaking / Robert Louis Wilken -- Marina / C.K. Williams -- East Boston, 1996 / Franz Wright -- 20, 40, 60, 80 / Genie Zeiger

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