Bruised with joy / Brian Doyle --
An elevator in Utah: on how children make despair look stupid / David James Duncan --
On laughing: notes on the funnest sound there is / Patrick Madden --
Do you think there is anything not attached by its unbreakable cord to everything else? / Mary Oliver --
Burying Mrs. Hamilton: a sacrament in the snow / Father Leroy Clementich, C.S.C. --
Every war has two losers: Oregon's late Poet Laureate on the madness of violence / William Stafford --
On not being good at reading the Bible / Helen Garner --
Learning to love: notes on praying a river / John Daniel --
I hold his hand / Steve Duin --
This soul has six wings: notes on ash and mystics and love and fire and taking it seriously / Jessie Van Eerden --
Hep! Hep! Hep! / Cynthia Ozick --
One of a kind and all the same: notes on hate and love and possibility / Thomas Lynch --
The closest to love we ever get: maybe the noisy song we all make together is the most powerful prayer of all / Heather King --
We have always been here: an Umatilla woman ponders the corps of discovery / Roberta Conner --
Who am I? Notes on ecstatic moments / John Coats --
When I knew: godlessness and God on September 11 / Patrick Giles --
The late Mister Bin Laden: a note / Brian Doyle --
Bald places: notes on nursing as witness / Hob Osterlund --
God owns a convenience store in British Columbia: who knew? / Gae Rusk --
The reality of torture / Martin Flanagan --
A burning soul / Mary Gordon --
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least / Pattiann Rogers --
The river / Paul Myers --
Native: notes on Americanness / Ian Frazier --
Across the void: a note on crazy and crucial hope / Robin Cody --
Madre de dios: on the unimaginable ocean of her love / Barry Lopez --
Who am I, Lord, that you should know my name? A note on believing, against all sense and reason / Bruce Lawrie --
Words are not enough / Alice Lok Cahana --
Her: on a dream coming beautifully true / Bill McNamara --
A war story: in the middle of Iraq in the middle of a war, there was a moment ... / Pete Rooks --
The call to forgiveness at the end of the day / Kathleen Dean Moore --
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 --
The hope of a trail: "for all I know I am approaching the holiest place in the world. Who can say? Who knows? We know nothing ..." / Rick Bass --
When I was blind: "blindness was full of second sight ..." / Edward Hoagland --
Why I am a priest / Father Charles Gordon, C.S.C. --
Perfect time: a note on the music of being a dad / Connor Doe --
Healing or stealing? The best commencement address ever / Paul Hawken.
Introduction: bruised with joy / Brian Doyle
An elevator in Utah : on how children make despair look stupid / David James Duncan
On laughing: notes on the funnest sound there is / Patrick Madden
Do you think there is anything not attached by its unbreakable cord to everything else? / Mary Oliver
Buring Mrs. Hamilton: a sacrament in the snow / Father Leroy Clementich, C.S.C.
Every war has two losers: Oregon's late poet laureate on the madness of violence / William Stafford.
On not being good at reading the Bible / Helen Garner
Learning to love: notes on praying a river / John Daniel
I hold his hand / Steve Duin
This soul has six wings : notes on ash and mystics and love and fire and taking it seriously / Jessie Van Eerden
Hep! Hep! Hep! / Cynthia Ozick
One of a kind and all the same: notes on hate and love and possibility / Thomas Lynch
The closest to love we ever get: maybe the noisy song we all make together is the most powerful prayer of all / Heather King
We have always been here: an Umatilla woman ponders the Corps of Discovery / Roberta Conner.
Who am I? Notes on ecstatic moments / John Coats
When I knew: godlessness and God on September 11 / Patrick Giles
The late mister Bin Laden: a note / Brian Doyle
Bald places: notes on nursing as witness / Hob Osterlund
God owns a convenience store in British Columbia: who knew? / Gae Rusk
The reality of torture / Martin Flanagan
A burning soul / Mary Gordon
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least / Pattiann Rogers
Native: notes on Americanness / Ian Frazier
Across the void: a note on crazy and crucial hope / Robin Cody
Madre de Dios: on the unimaginable ocean of her love / Barry Lopez
Who am I, Lord, that you should know my name? A note on believing, against all sense and reason / Bruce Lawrie
Words are not enough / Alice Lok Cahana
Her: on a dream coming beautifully true / Bill McNamara
A war story: in the middle of Iraq in the middle of a war, there was a moment ... / Pete Rooks
The call to forgiveness at the end of the day / Kathleen Dean Moore
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.
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
When I was blind: "Blindness was full of second sight ..." / Edward Hoagland
Why I am a priest / Father Charles Gordon, C.S.C.
Perfect time: a note on the music of being a dad / Connor Doe
Healing or stealing? The best commencement address ever / Paul Hawken.
