The life of meaning : reflections on faith, doubt, and repairing the world
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Originally published: 2007
Sixty contributors speak candidly about their search for meaning in their own personal lives, their experience with God, and for some, the struggle to reconcile faith and doubt.--From publisher description
Chapter 1. The meaning makers -- 1. Limning the rites of death / Thomas Lynch -- 2. 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. The meaning of mud / Phyllis Tickle -- Chapter 2. Evil and suffering -- 9. A 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 Terkel -- Chapter 3. Prayer and meditation -- 17. The world's prayers / Carol and Philip Zaleski -- 18. Through the valley of the shadow / Harold Kushner -- 19. The 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 / Phillis Tickle -- 24. The hum of the universe, in a minor key / Robert Wuthnow -- 26. Finding God's presence in darkness / Ellwood "Bud" Kieser -- Chapter 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 / Phillis Tickle -- 31. We're spiritual and religious / Tilden Edwards and Tina Brown -- 32. Religion makes hospice calls / Martin Marty -- 33. The good, without God / Rushworth Kidder -- Chapter 5. Being religious -- [5.1] Catholicism -- 34. All is gift / Eileen Durkin -- 35. Eileen's uncle and his Catholic imagination / Andrew Greeley -- 36. Stuff counts / George Weigel -- [5.2] Evangelicalism -- 37. Is God still the center? / Mark Noll -- 38. The inerrant, infallible word of God / Richard Land -- 39. The genius of evangelicalism / Randall Balmer -- 40. Who is winning, evangelicals or American culture? / Alan Wolfe -- [5.3] Mainline Protestant -- 41. God is not going to whomp you / Martin Marty -- 42. Vital signs / Diana Butler Bass -- [5.4] The African-American church -- 43. Safe harbors and defiant spirituality / Robert Franklin -- [5.5] Judaism -- 44. The miracle of existence / Blue Greenberg -- 45. Reading the book of our life / Alan Lew, Abraham Lubin, and Joel Tessler -- 46. The soul is hovering / Rochel Berman -- [5.6] Islam -- 47. Bearing witness to the one God / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- 48. The hajj / Abdul Alim Mubarak -- [5.7] Buddhism -- 49. A message from the Dalai Lama / the Dalai Lama -- 50. Being mindful and engaged / Thich Nhat Hanh -- 51. The smaller sufferings / Helen Tworkov -- [5.8] Hinduism -- 52. Many deities, one God / Uma Mysorekar -- Chapter 6. Paths up the mountain -- 53. The measure of diversity / Diana Eck -- 54. Many paths, many ways / Alan Wolfe -- 55. Evangelizing by deed / Jimmy Carter -- 56. The only way to heaven / James Merritt -- 57. Is every truth true? / Robert Wuthnow -- 58. Our great challenge / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- 59. The passions of Jerusalem / David Hartman -- Chapter 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. The cathedral of clarity / Billy Shore -- 66. Listen to your life / Frederick Buechner -- 67. Raging against boredom / William Sloane Coffin
Sixty contributors speak candidly about their search for meaning in their own personal lives, their experience with God, and for some, the struggle to reconcile faith and doubt.--From publisher description
Chapter 1. The meaning makers -- 1. Limning the rites of death / Thomas Lynch -- 2. 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. The meaning of mud / Phyllis Tickle -- Chapter 2. Evil and suffering -- 9. A 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 Terkel -- Chapter 3. Prayer and meditation -- 17. The world's prayers / Carol and Philip Zaleski -- 18. Through the valley of the shadow / Harold Kushner -- 19. The 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 / Phillis Tickle -- 24. The hum of the universe, in a minor key / Robert Wuthnow -- 26. Finding God's presence in darkness / Ellwood "Bud" Kieser -- Chapter 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 / Phillis Tickle -- 31. We're spiritual and religious / Tilden Edwards and Tina Brown -- 32. Religion makes hospice calls / Martin Marty -- 33. The good, without God / Rushworth Kidder -- Chapter 5. Being religious -- [5.1] Catholicism -- 34. All is gift / Eileen Durkin -- 35. Eileen's uncle and his Catholic imagination / Andrew Greeley -- 36. Stuff counts / George Weigel -- [5.2] Evangelicalism -- 37. Is God still the center? / Mark Noll -- 38. The inerrant, infallible word of God / Richard Land -- 39. The genius of evangelicalism / Randall Balmer -- 40. Who is winning, evangelicals or American culture? / Alan Wolfe -- [5.3] Mainline Protestant -- 41. God is not going to whomp you / Martin Marty -- 42. Vital signs / Diana Butler Bass -- [5.4] The African-American church -- 43. Safe harbors and defiant spirituality / Robert Franklin -- [5.5] Judaism -- 44. The miracle of existence / Blue Greenberg -- 45. Reading the book of our life / Alan Lew, Abraham Lubin, and Joel Tessler -- 46. The soul is hovering / Rochel Berman -- [5.6] Islam -- 47. Bearing witness to the one God / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- 48. The hajj / Abdul Alim Mubarak -- [5.7] Buddhism -- 49. A message from the Dalai Lama / the Dalai Lama -- 50. Being mindful and engaged / Thich Nhat Hanh -- 51. The smaller sufferings / Helen Tworkov -- [5.8] Hinduism -- 52. Many deities, one God / Uma Mysorekar -- Chapter 6. Paths up the mountain -- 53. The measure of diversity / Diana Eck -- 54. Many paths, many ways / Alan Wolfe -- 55. Evangelizing by deed / Jimmy Carter -- 56. The only way to heaven / James Merritt -- 57. Is every truth true? / Robert Wuthnow -- 58. Our great challenge / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- 59. The passions of Jerusalem / David Hartman -- Chapter 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. The cathedral of clarity / Billy Shore -- 66. Listen to your life / Frederick Buechner -- 67. Raging against boredom / William Sloane Coffin
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