Best American spiritual writing 2007

"And all shall be well; and all shall be well; and all manner of thing shall be well" / Dick Allen -- On Constantin Brancusi / Dore Ashton -- Climbing the Sphinx / Fred Bahnson -- The head of barley / Robert Bly -- Christmas in New York / Joseph Bottum -- The ends of science / Eric Cohen -- Luna moths / Robert Cording -- The Magdalen with the nightlight / Madeline DeFrees -- The birthing / Deborah Digges -- What is the worth of the Wind River Mountains? / Gretel Ehrlich -- Friendship among the intellectuals / Joseph Epstein -- Faithful to mystery / Kate Farrell -- On the shores of Lake Biwa / Natalie Goldberg -- Shining tree of life / Adam Gopnik -- My mother's body / Mary Gordon -- What philosopher / Vicki Hearne -- Tomorrow is another day / Carol Huang -- This is who I am when no one is looking Pico Iyer -- In the footsteps of Walter Benjamin / Michael D. Jackson -- Liberating word / Philip Jenkins -- Everyone was in love / Galway Kinnell -- On laughing / Patrick Madden -- Loving the storm-drenched / Frederica Mathewes-Green -- Love divine / Dara Mayers -- Idol-smashing and immodesty in the groves of academe / Wilfred M. McClay -- Reaching for the end of time / Ann McCutchan -- The moderate martyr / George Packer -- The preacher / Sridhar Pappu -- Hysterical scientism / Marilynne Robinson -- The universal grammar of religion / Huston Smith -- Storm / Mark Strand -- Half moon, small cloud / John Updike -- Jaroslav Pelikan, Doctor Ecclesiae / Robert Louis Wilken -- What Jesus did / Garry Wills -- Music heard in illness / Franz Wright.