The Best American Spiritual Writing 2008 - ed. Philip Zaleski

Written by ed. Philip Zaleski
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The Best American Spiritual Writing 2008
Edited by Philip Zaleski

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Total # of Tracks: 39
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Anthology #219
Not my typical fare. I grabbed this for my Le Guin collection.
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From Goodreads

In his introduction to this volume, President Jimmy Carter writes that The Best American Spiritual Writing “approaches the writing of both poetry and prose as a spiritual discipline, a way to explore the mysteries of the soul and the soul’s relationship with God.” As always, editor Philip Zaleski has assembled a wide-ranging and wonderfully eclectic collection that delves headlong into that spiritual discipline, looking to inspire, provoke, and offer insight into modern spirituality and religion.
Here you will find Walter Isaacson’s brilliant and provocative portrait of Einstein’s religious life—a cross between his parents’ secularism, his native Judaism, and his Catholic grade-school education. Drawing from his own experience of trying to inhabit multiple worlds, Noah Feldman examines the difficulties facing faith communities as they adhere to tradition yet also strive to be modern, in “Orthodox Paradox.” When “Meeting the Chinese in St. Paul,” Natalie Goldberg, with the help of a broken rhinoceros fan, grapples with this question: how should I live, knowing the world is a confusing place? Pico Iyer weighs in on his tranquil retreat, the holiest place in Japan; Oliver Sacks gives a moving account of a man with retrograde amnesia, striving for a meaningful life devoid of memory; and Ursula K. Le Guin passionately explains, as only she can, the appeal and subtle morality of A. E. Housman’s “A Shropshire Lad: XXXII.”
Committed to literary excellence, this “invaluable collection” (Library Journal) also features poetry from distinguished voices such as Wendell Berry, Maxine Kumin, John Updike, and Charles Wright. As Zaleski writes in his foreword, The Best American Spiritual Writing 2008 proves that the writing in this edition is a stirring “medium for contemplating, via the things of the flesh, the things of the spirit.”

Stories in this collection:

01) Foreword by Philip Zaleski
02) Introduction by Jimmy Carter
01) Faith and Quantum Theory by Stephen M. Barr
02) Sabbaths 2005 by Wendell Berry
03) Jerusalem Manor by Ben Birnbaum
04) The End of Advent by Joseph Bottum
05) Who Am I? by John Coats
06) Lost River by David James Duncan
07) A Man for All Reasons by Paul Elie
08) Aubade in Autumn by Peter Everwine
09) Lullaby by Kate Farrell
10) Orthodox Paradox by Noah Feldman
11) Meeting the Chinese in St. Paul by Natalie Goldberg
12) Carol of the Infuriated Hour by David Brendan Hopes
13) Einstein & Faith by Walter Isaacson
14) The Magic Mountain by Pico Iyer
15) The Closest to Love We Ever Get by Heather King
16) The Domestic Arrangement by Maxine Kumin
17) About A Poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
18) Cell Group by James Loney
19) I Met A Man Who Has Seen the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, and This Is What He Told Me by Nancy Lord
20) Into the Oblivion by Thomas Lynch
21) Keeping Faith by Adam Minter
22) A University of A Particular Kind by Richard John Neuhaus
23) XYZ by Robert Pinsky
24) Atheism Is Wasted on the Nonbeliever by Richard Rodriguez
25) The Abyss by Oliver Sacks
26) I’m Never Sure About the Word “Apotheosis” by Nick Samaras
27) The Saint of Worcester by Mathew N. Schmalz
28) Only A Mother’s Love by Kurt Shaw
29) Living by Jason Shinder
30) Schooling At Home by Sally Thomas
31) Signs of Design by J. Scott Turner
32) Madurai by John Updike
33) Love Bade Me Welcome by Christian Wiman
34) Littlefoot, 14 by Charles Wright
35) Why Holocaust Denial Undermines Islam by Hamza Yusuf