A sense of wonder
Subtitle: the world's best writers on the sacred, the profane, and the ordinary
By: Brian Doyle, editor
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781626982086
Subjects: Spirituality
Description: An anthology of 36 astonishing personal stories and essays from some of Americas best writers that first appeared in Portland Magazine, “the best university magazine in America” (Newsweek). --Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: bruised with joy / Brian Doyle; title: An elevator in Utah : on how children make despair look stupid / David James Duncan; title: On laughing: notes on the funnest sound there is / Patrick Madden; title: Do you think there is anything not attached by its unbreakable cord to everything else? / Mary Oliver; title: Buring Mrs. Hamilton: a sacrament in the snow / Father Leroy Clementich, C.S.C.; title: Every war has two losers: Oregon's late poet laureate on the madness of violence / William Stafford; title: On not being good at reading the Bible / Helen Garner; title: Learning to love: notes on praying a river / John Daniel; title: I hold his hand / Steve Duin; title: This soul has six wings : notes on ash and mystics and love and fire and taking it seriously / Jessie Van Eerden; title: Hep! Hep! Hep! / Cynthia Ozick; title: One of a kind and all the same: notes on hate and love and possibility / Thomas Lynch; title: The closest to love we ever get: maybe the noisy song we all make together is the most powerful prayer of all / Heather King; title: We have always been here: an Umatilla woman ponders the Corps of Discovery / Roberta Conner; title: Who am I? Notes on ecstatic moments / John Coats; title: When I knew: godlessness and God on September 11 / Patrick Giles; title: The late mister Bin Laden: a note / Brian Doyle; title: Bald places: notes on nursing as witness / Hob Osterlund; title: God owns a convenience store in British Columbia: who knew? / Gae Rusk; title: The reality of torture / Martin Flanagan; title: A burning soul / Mary Gordon; title: I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least / Pattiann Rogers; title: The river / Paul Myers; title: Native: notes on Americanness / Ian Frazier; title: Across the void: a note on crazy and crucial hope / Robin Cody; title: Madre de Dios: on the unimaginable ocean of her love / Barry Lopez; title: Who am I, Lord, that you should know my name? A note on believing, against all sense and reason / Bruce Lawrie; title: Words are not enough / Alice Lok Cahana; title: Her: on a dream coming beautifully true / Bill McNamara; title: A war story: in the middle of Iraq in the middle of a war, there was a moment ... / Pete Rooks; title: The call to forgiveness at the end of the day / Kathleen Dean Moore; title: A chapel is where you can hear something beating below your heart: I came to the chapel at the university as the light was falling ... / Pico Iyer; title: The hope of a trail: "For all I know I am approaching the holiest of places in the world. Who can say? Who knows? We know nothing ... / Rick Bass; title: When I was blind: "Blindness was full of second sight ..." / Edward Hoagland; title: Why I am a priest / Father Charles Gordon, C.S.C.; title: Perfect time: a note on the music of being a dad / Connor Doe; title: Healing or stealing? The best commencement address ever / Paul Hawken.