The life of meaning: reflections on faith, doubt, and repairing the world

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.