Best American Spiritual Writing 2007 Book

Foreword   Philip Zaleski     x
Introduction   Harvey Cox     xvi
"And All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Thing Shall Be Well": from The Hudson Review     1
On Constantin Brancusi: from Raritan     3
Climbing the Sphinx: from Fugue     16
The Head of Barley: from The American Poetry Review     31
Christmas in New York: from First Things     32
The Ends of Science: from First Things     35
Luna Moths: from The Southern Review     49
The Magdalen with the Nightlight by Georges de La Tour: from Image     51
The Birthing: from The New Yorker     52
What Is the Worth of the Wind River Mountains?: from Shambhala Sun     54
Friendship Among the Intellectuals: from Commentary     61
Faithful to Mystery: from The Journal for Anthroposophy     70
On the Shores of Lake Biwa: from Shambhala Sun     87
Shining Tree of Life: from The New Yorker     97
My Mother's Body: from The American Scholar     109
What Philosopher: from The American Scholar     128
Tomorrow Is Another Day: from The American Scholar     129
This Is Who I Am When No One Is Looking: from Portland     141
In the Footsteps ofWalter Benjamin: from Harvard Divinity Bulletin     145
Liberating Word: from Christian Century     167
Everyone Was in Love: from The Atlantic Monthly     176
On Laughing: from Portland     177
Loving the Storm-Drenched: from Christianity Today     182
Love Divine: from Tricycle     188
Idol-Smashing and Immodesty in the Groves of Academe: from In Character     197
Reaching for the End of Time: from Image     209
The Moderate Martyr: from The New Yorker     225
The Preacher: from The Atlantic Monthly     244
Hysterical Scientism: from Harper's Magazine     264
The Universal Grammar of Religion: from Sophia     276
Storm: from The New Yorker     282
Half Moon, Small Cloud: from The Atlantic Monthly     283
Jaroslav Pelikan, Doctor Ecclesiae: from First Things     284
What Jesus Did: from The American Scholar     289
Music Heard in Illness: from Ploughshares     298
Contributors' Notes     301
Other Notable Spiritual Writing of 2006     305