Preface / by Philip Zaleski
Introduction by Andre Dubus III
Secrets of the confessional / Lorenzo Albacete
Night eyes / Marc Ian Barasch
Sabbaths, 1999 / Wendell Berry
How to pray / Ben Birnbaum
Gratitude / Robert Cording
Grace notes / Brian Doyle
Strategic withdrawal / David James Duncan
Bear Butte diary / John Landretti
Stillbirth / Leah Koncelik Lebec
Toward humility / Bret Lott
Being Saint Francis / Valerie Martin
Exegesis of eating / Alane Salierno Mason
Trouble in the tribe / Daphne Merkin
Neither here nor there / Thomas Moore
Conversations with Camus / Howard Mumma
Temptation of the sublime / Sheldon M. Novick
Millennium map of the universe / Pattiann Rogers
Yoga exercise / Floyd Skloot
Way of flowers / Joan D. Stamm
Holy land pilgrimage / George Weigel
Novelist and the nun / Lawrence Weschler
Santa Teresa / Terry Tempest Williams
A true Daltonic dandy / Simon Winchester
Clear night / Charles Wright.