Contributors Index

Starring the Devil: Hollywood's Uncertain Grasp of Evil

The Silence of Angels

In God's Wildness

The Music of Arvo Pärt

Sacrificing Images: Violence and the Movies

The Spiritual Frontiers of Film

Fully Human

Cinema and Crisis: The Elusive Quest for Catharsis

Keeping All the Options Open: The Christian Vocation in the Secular Academy

The Writer's Desk

The Durable Hunger

Whispering Hope

How to Pray: Reverence, Stories, and the Rebbe's Dream

Morning Watch

Making It Strange

Houses of Study

Shaping What's Given: Sacred Tradition and the Individual Talent

The End of Suffering

Retreat

The Voices of Sister Mary Appassionata

Miss Morley's Parrot: Reflections on Religion, Immigration, and Writing

Of Dissonance and Touch: A Movement in Sonata Form

The Art of Devotion: Some Thoughts on Poetry and Prayer

The Revolt against Narcissus

Fully Human

The Problem of Azure-Hooded Jay

The Water Will Hold You: A Daughter at Prayer

Praying for a Home

Notes for Young Writers

The Death of Satan

The Christian Imagination

Contemplation for Protestants: Where the Reformed Tradition Went Wrong

Dionysus in the Choir

Stories That Will Get You Killed

A Writer's Faith

Fully Human

Pilgrims: Snapshots from an Idaho Family Album

Happy Endings

Jeremiah Was a Bulldog

Putting God in the Box

Fully Human

The Academy and My Jewish Problem

Fully Human

To Witness to the Truth Uncompromised: Reflections on the Modern Martyrs

Unapologetic Visibility

A Week in the World

Stigmata

Writing as Sacrament

Spiritual Subversion: The Films of Nicholas St. John

The Mass of Virtue

Portraits of the Sonata: Desire and Transformation in Modern European Cinema

Fully Human

Darwin, God, and the Nightingale's Poem

Fully Human

The Wisdom of Goodnight Moon: On Making a Record, as the Mother of a Two-year-old.

The Kingdom of the Eternal Heaven

Fully Human

The Voice of this Calling: Art as Vocation

The Preposterous Beginning

Asking for Salt

Working Away and Homemaking: The Artist in the Service of the Species

The Yoke of Sympathy: The Fiction Writer and Her Characters

Christianity Encounters Modernism

The Ironic Stance and the Law of Diminishing Returns

Why Have We Given Up the Ghost? Notes on Reclaiming Literary Fiction

Skipping the History: The Question of Art as Sacrament

Art and the Spiritual: The Difficult Balance

God and the Imagination

The Ineffability of What Counts: Some Notes on Poetry and Christianity

Hopkins' Late Poetics: The Christ-saturated Thing Itself

The Blind Man of Siloe

Beauty and Terror: Rapture in Art and the Sacred

Close Encounters: Hollywood and Religion After a Century

Looking for Reel Religion

Christian Humanism through the Centuries

Wondering Thomas

Journeying in Place

Annunciation

Departures: Journey's with Asian Filmmakers

The Language of Faith

Writing the Sacred

The Beauty of Holiness

Apocalypse

Movies and Mammon: A Dialogue About the Economics of Filmmaking

Living in the Borderlands

A Society of Jesus

Born, Again and Again

Jesus Through Poet's Eyes: A Millenial Reflection

Dying into Life

Pilot's Log: Two Interior Journeys

Pilgrims and Prophets: The Figure of the Priest in the Fiction of Andre Dubus and Walker Percy

The Sound of My Desire

Fully Human

The Christian Writer and His Community

Your Own Private Jew

Reversing Entropy

Recovering Evangelical: Reflections of an Erstwhile Christ Addict

Literature and Belief

Scordatura: Upon Listening to Biber's Rosary Sonatas

In Search of the Lotus Land