This I believe
Subtitle: the personal philosophies of remarkable men and women
By: edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman ; with John Gregory and Viki Merrick ; photographs by Nubar Alexanian ; editorial team, Gladys Chang Hardy ... [et al.].
Contributors: Allison, Jay.; Gediman, Dan.; Gregory, John.; Merrick, Viki.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: H. Holt
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780805080872; 9780805080872
Subjects: Belief and doubt; Conduct of life; Life; Celebrities
Description: A collection of eighty essays exploring the personal beliefs of a diverse assortment of contributors, both famous and unknown, who reflect on their faith, the evolution of their beliefs, and how they express them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Studs Terkel; title: Introduction / Jay Allison; title: Be cool to the pizza dude / Sarah Adams; title: Leaving identity  issues to other folks / Phyllis Allen; title: In giving I connect with others / Isabel Allende; title: Remembering all the boys / Elvia Bautista; title: The mountain disappears / Leonard Bernstein; title: How is it possible to believe in God? / William F. Buckley, Jr.; title: The fellowship of the world / Niven Busch; title: There is no job more important than parenting / Benjamin Carson; title: A journey toward acceptance and love / Greg Chapman; title: A shared moment of trust / Warren Christopher; title: The hardest work you will ever do / Mary Cook; title: Good can be as communicable as evil / Norman Corwin; title: A daily walk just to listen / Susan Cosio; title: The elusive yet holy core / Kathy Dahlen; title: My father's evening star / William O. Douglas; title: An honest doubter / Elizabeth Deutsch Earle; title: Have I learned anything important since I was sixteen? / Elizabeth Deutsch Earle; title: An ideal of service to our fellow man / Albert Einstein; title: The power and mystery of naming things / Eve Ensler; title: A goal of service to humankind / Anthony Fauci; title: The God who embraced me / John W. Fountain; title: Unleashing the power of creativity / Bill Gates; title: The people who love you when no one else will / Cecile Gilmer; title: The willingness to work for solutions / Newt Gingrich; title: The connection between strangers / Miles Goodwin; title: An athlete of God / Martha Graham; title: Seeing in beautiful, precise pictures / Temple Grandin; title: Disrupting my comfort zone / Brian Grazer; title: In praise of the "Wobblies" / Ted Gup; title: The power of presence / Debbie Hall; title: A grown-up Barbie / Jane Hamill; title: Happy talk / Oscar Hammerstein II; title: Natural links in a long chain of being / Victor Hanson; title: Talking with the sun / Joy Harjo; title: A morning prayer in a little church / Helen Hayes; title: Our noble, essential decency / Robert A. Heinlein; title: A new birth of freedom / Maximillan Hodder; title: The benefits of restlessness and jagged edges / Kay Redfield Jamison; title: There is no God / Penn Jillette; title: A duty to heal / Pius Kamau; title: Living life with "Grace and elegant treeness" / Ruth Kamps; title: The light of a brighter day / Helen Keller; title: The bright lights of freedom / Harold Hongju Koh; title: The power of love to transform and heal / Jackie Lantry; title: The power of mysteries / Alan Lightman; title: Life grows in the soil of time / Thomas Mann; title: Why I close my restaurant / George Mardikian; title: The virtues of the quiet hero / John McCain; title: The joy and enthusiasm of reading / Rick Moody; title: There is such a thing as truth / Errol Morris; title: The rule of law / Michael Mullane; title: Getting angry can be a good thing / Cecilia Muñoz; title: Mysterious connections that link us together / Azar Nafisi; title: The making of poems / Gregory Orr; title: We are each other's business / Eboo Patel; title: The 50-percent theory of life / Steve Porter; title: The America I believe in / Colin Powell; title: The real consequences of justice / Frederic Reamer; title: There is more to life than my life / Jamaica Ritcher; title: Tomorrow will be a better day / Josh Rittenberg; title: Free minds and hearts at work / Jackie Robinson; title: Growth that starts from thinking / Eleanor Roosevelt; title: The artistry in hidden talents / Mel Rusnov; title: My fellow worms / Carl Sandburg; title: When children are wanted / Margaret Sanger; title: Jazz is the sound of God laughing / Colleen Shaddox; title: There is no such thing as too much barbecue / Jason Sheehan; title: The people have spoken / Mark shields; title: Everything potent is dangerous / Wallace Stegner; title: A balance between nature and nurture / Gloria Steinem; title: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness / Andrew Sullivan; title: Always go to the funeral / Deirdre Sullivan; title: Finding prosperity by feeding monkeys / Harold Taw; title: I agree with a pagan / Arnold Toynbee; title: Testing the limits of what I know and feel / John Updike; title: How do you believe in a mystery? / Loudon Wainwright III; title: Creative solutions to life's challenges / Frank X. Walker; title: Goodness doesn't just happen / Rebecca West; title: When ordinary people achieve extraordinary things / Jody Williams; title: Afterword:  The history of This I Believe: The power of an idea / Dan Gediman; title: Appendix A: Introduction to the 1950s  This I Believe radio series / Edward R. Murrow; title: Appendix B: How to write your own This I Believe essay; title: Appendix C: How to use This I Believe in your community; title: Acknowledgments.