Searching for Your Soul: Writers of Many Faiths Share Their Personal Stories of Spiritual Discovery Book

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction / Katherine Kurs
I Secrets and Revelation
Here: Grace / Nancy Mairs        
From In This Dark House / Louise Kehoe
From Conundrum / Jan Morris
From The Shadow Man / Mary Gordon
Three Spheres / Lauren Slater
Personal Dichotomies / Antonio Feliz
From Lovesong: Becoming a Jew / Julius Lester

II Ancestors and Tradition        
From Bone Black / bell hooks        
From When the World Was Whole / Charles Fenyvesi
Ghosts: A History / Kathleen Norris        
The Old Testament/The New Testament / James McBride
From Memories of a Catholic Girlhood / Mary McCarthy
From Heretic's Heart: A Journey Through Spirit and Revolution / Margot Adler
From An Orphan in History / Paul Cowan
From Memories, Dreams, Reflections / Carl Jung
Taking Martha with Me / Beverly Coyle
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians / Rita Dove        
The Generation of Faith / Randall Balmer
In Search of the Thin Place / Albert Jordy Raboteau

III Flesh and Spirit
My Father's House / Don Belton
From In the Wilderness / Kim Barnes
If Only I'd Been Born a Kosher Chicken / Jyl Lynn Felman
From Visions of Glory / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
From The Story of My Experiments with Truth / Mohandas Gandhi        
From The Book ofMargery Kempe / Margery Kempe
From The Long Loneliness / Dorothy Day        
From Bone Black / bell hooks        
From The Seven Storey Mountain / Thomas Merton        
From The Confessions / St. Augustine        
From Faith, Sex, Mystery / Richard Gilman        

IV Suffering and Mortality
Catherine Means Pure / Kathryn Harrison
Meditations on a Shadow / Bradford Morrow        
From The Earth House / Jeanne DuPrau
Suffering and Faith / Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tylenol Prayer Beads / Jarvis Jay Masters
From Returning: A Spiritual Journey / Dan Wakefield
From Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America / Letty Cottin Pogrebin
From Refuge / Terry Tempest Williams

V Exploration and Encounter
From Salvation on Sand Mountain / Dennis Covington
From The Search for God at Harvard / Ari L. Goldman
Papa Ogou, Do You Take This Woman? / Karen McCarthy Brown        
Satan; Saved / Malcolm X
From The Experience of No-Self / Bernadette Roberts
From Ambivalent Zen / Lawrence Shainberg        
Around the Ka'ba and Over the Crick / Mohja Kahf
From Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish
/ Sue Bender        
From Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras / Diana Eck
When a Christian Chants the Qur'an / George Dardess        
Encountering a Jewish Jesus / James (K) Karpen        
A Dark Webbing of Spirit / James Oakley