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Article: Reading for inspiration.(The Best American Spiritual Writing 2005)(Book Review)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- October 7, 2005
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THE BEST AMERICAN SPIRITUAL WRITING 2005 Edited by Philip Zaleski Houghton Mifflin, 208 pages, $14
Editor Philip Zaleski has collected high-minded theology, Weltanschauung wisdom, modern-day parables and morality tales and brought them together in The Best American Spiritual Writing 2005. This seventh volume of the series, which was first published in 1998, provides good reading for daily prayer and reflection. The book presents readers with the opportunity "to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts," as C.S. Lewis put it.
The writing throughout these chosen essays is compelling. In Bill McKibben's "High ...