Foreword by Philip Zaleski
Introduction by Harvey Cox

Dick Allen. "And All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Thing Shall Be Well"
from The Hudson Review

Dore Ashton. On Constantin Brancusi
from Raritan

Fred Bahnson. Climbing the Sphinx
from Fugue

Robert Bly. The Head of Barley
from The American Poetry Review

Joseph Bottum. Christmas in New York
from First Things

Eric Cohen. The Ends of Science
from First Things

Robert Cording. Luna Moths
from The Southern Review

Madeline DeFrees. The Magdalen with the Nightlight by Georges de La Tour
from Image

Deborah Digges. The Birthing
from The New Yorker

Gretel Ehrlich. What Is the Worth of the Wind River Mountains?
from Shambhala Sun

Joseph Epstein. Friendship Among the Intellectuals
from Commentary

Kate Farrell. Faithful to Mystery
from The Journal for Anthroposophy

Natalie Goldberg. On the Shores of Lake Biwa
from Shambhala Sun

Adam Gopnik. Shining Tree of Life
from The New Yorker

Mary Gordon. My Mother's Body
from The American Scholar

Vicki Hearne. What Philosopher
from The American Scholar

Carol Huang. Tomorrow Is Another Day
from The American Scholar

Pico Iyer. This Is Who I Am When No One Else Is Looking
from Portland

Michael D. Jackson. In the Footsteps of Walter Benjamin
from Harvard Divinity Bulletin

Philip Jenkins. Liberating Word
from Christian Century

Galway Kinnell. Everyone Was in Love
from The AtlanticMonthly

Patrick Madden. On Laughing
from Portland

Frederica Mathewes-Green. Loving the Storm-Drenched
from Christianity Today

Dara Mayers. Love Divine
from Tricycle

Wilfred M. McClay. Idol-Smashing and Immodesty in the Groves of Academe
from In Character

Ann McCutchan. Reaching for the End of Time
from Image

George Packer. The Moderate Martyr
from The New Yorker

Sridhar Pappu. The Preacher
from The Atlantic Monthly

Marilynne Robinson. Hysterical Scientism
from Harper's Magazine

Huston Smith. The Universal Grammar of Religion
from Sophia

Mark Strand. Storm
from The New Yorker

John Updike. Half Moon, Small Cloud
from The Atlantic Monthly

Robert Louis Wilken. Jaroslav Pelikan, Doctor Ecclesiae
from First Things

Garry Wills. What Jesus Did
from The American Scholar

Franz Wright. Music Heard in Illness
from Ploughshares

Contributors' Notes
Other Notable Spiritual Writing of 2006