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The life of meaning: reflections on faith, doubt, and repairing the world
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Seven Stories Press
Publication Date
c2007
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Seven Stories Press 1st ed.
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English
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From the Book - Seven Stories Press 1st ed.
Ch. 1. meaning makers
1. Limning the rites of death / Thomas Lynch
2. PG Staring down the gods of war / Chris Hedges
3. Exposing the spiritual crisis of modern medicine / Rachel Remen
4. More than is dreamt of in your theologies / Marilynne Robinson and John Polkinghorne
5. Naming the real / Marianne Williamson and Tilden Edwards
6. Discovering things nobody knew before but God / Francis Collins
7. Waltzing with the God of chaos / Barbara Brown Taylor
8. meaning of mud / Phyllis Tickle
Ch. 2. Evil and suffering
9. faith difficult to understand / Menachem Daum
10. Easing the divine suffering / Irving Greenberg
11. Evil acts, sacred places / Edward Linenthal
12. Like living in the book of job / Thomas Lynch
13. Damning the disease, not (ultimately) the deity / William Abernethy
14. Smells like hope / Madeleine L'engle
15. Redeeming the devil / Desmond Tutu
16. Hope dies last / Studs Terkei
Ch. 3. Prayer and meditation
17. world's prayers / Carol and Philip Zaleski
18. Through the valley of the shadow / Harold Kushner
19. former president on unanswered prayer / Jimmy Carter
20. Warming oneself before the glow of God / Desmond Tutu
21. Talking to God straight and angry / Stanley Hauerwas
22. On wintry spirituality and napping / Martin Marty
23. Praise every three hours / Phyllis Tickle
24. Jesus prayer and praying with icons / Frederica Mathewes-Green
25. hum of the universe, in a minor key / Robert Wuthnow
26. Finding God's presence in darkness / Ellwood "Bud" Kieser
Ch. 4. "I'm spiritual, not religious"
27. On the altar of consciousness / Marilyn McGuire
28. Unlearning religion / Marianne Williamson
29. Blessing the doubters / Barbara Brown Taylor
30. With or without religion / Phyllis tickle
31. We're spiritual and religious / Tilden Edwards and Tina Brown
32. Religion makes hospice calls / Martin Marty
33. good, without God / Rushworth Kidder
Ch. 5. Being religious
34. All is gift / Eileen Durkin
35. Eileen's uncle and his Catholic imagination / Andrew Greeley
36. Stuff counts / George Weigel
37. Is God still the center? / Mark Noll
38. Inerrant, infallible word of God / Richard Land
39. genius of evangelicalism / Randall Balmer
40. Who is winning - evangelicals or American culture? / Alan Wolfe
41. God is not going to whomp you / Martin Marty
42. Vital signs / Diana Butler Bass
43. Safe harbors and defiant spirituality / Robert Franklin
44. miracle of existence / Blu Greenberg
45. Reading the book of our life / Alan Lew, Abraham Lubin and Joel Tessler
46. soul is hovering / Rochel Berman
47. Bearing witness to the one God / Seyyed Hossein Nasr
48. Hajj / Abdul Alim Mubarak
49. message from the Dalai Lama / The Dalai Lama
50. Being mindful and engaged / Thich Nhat Hanh
51. smaller sufferings / Helen Tworkov
52. Many deities, one God / Uma Mysorekar
Ch. 6. Paths up the mountain
53. measure of diversity / Diana Eck
54. Many paths, many ways / Alan Wolfe
55. Evangelizing by deed / Jimmy Carter
56. only way to heaven / James Merritt
57. Is every truth true? / Robert Wuthnow
58. Our great challenge / Seyyed Hossein Nasr
59. passions of Jerusalem / David Hartman
Ch. 7. Lives well lived
60. Where the weak and the strong dance together / Jean Vanier
61. "Oh, Annie, whatever" / Anne Lamott
62. No return / Scott Neeson
63. Changing your social footprint / Rajiv Vinnakota
64. Healing body and spirit / Scott Morris
65. cathedral of charity / Billy Shore
66. Raging against boredom / William Sloane Coffin.
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