"Every year, 'The Best Spiritual Writing' brings together the finest essays and poetry on the themes of faith, spirituality, and religion."--p.[4] of cover.
The thisness of what is / Diane Ackerman Dante's The Inferno, Canto I: A new translation / Mary Jo Bang Fire season / Rick Bass The God of the gaps / David Berlinski The judgment of memory / Joseph Bottum Is Google making us stupid? / Nicholas Carr The aging Maria / Judith Ortiz Cofer Searching / Billy Collins The Dalai Lama spends the night / Christi Cox Before the storm / Louise Glèuck The whisper of love / Seamus Heaney Vinegar and oil / Jane Hirshfield The kingdom of the eternal heaven / Paula Huston The return of the 'The snow leopard' / Pico Iyer Prince of ascetics : a short story / Charles Johnson Chosenness and its enemies / Jon D. Levenson Words on the wind / Philip Levine Our buried sentiments / Wilfred M. McClay Secularizations / Richard John Neuhaus The procession / Robert Pinksy Scriptorium: The Lindisfarne Gospels / Melissa Range The God of the desert / Richard Rodriguez I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least / Pattiann Rogers Contemptus mundi and the love of life / Amanda Shaw Ezra Pound in a spring storm / Floyd Skloot Why beards? / Meir Soloveichick The writer in winter / John Updike Ring the bells / Leon Wieseltier A measuring worm / Richard Wilbur The wanderer / Master Sheng Yen
