Why I pray / Ben Birnbaum -- The ambulance prayer / Annie Callan -- Holy waters / John Daniel -- Leap / Brian Doyle -- Making sandwiches for my daughters / Andre Dubus -- Gladly / David James Duncan -- Six prayers / Mary Gordon -- Offer it up / Tony Hillerman -- God's love on a darkling plain / Barry Lopez -- Breathless / Melissa Madenski -- Holy places, holy people / Louis Masson -- Spiritual peaks / Gregory McNamee -- Baking bread with my daughter / Kathleen Dean Moore -- Love is what we do / Cynthia Ozick -- The meadow / Chet Raymo -- Rain / Pattiann Rogers -- Where God's grief appears / Pattiann Rogers -- One clear chord / Mary Lee Settle -- The waters of life / William Skylstad -- Spirit-homesteading the Oregon country / Kim Stafford -- Religion vs. the media / Margaret Steinfels -- Grace / Sallie Tisdale -- The geometry of love / Margaret Visser -- Dreaming God's dream / John Vlazny -- Santa Teresa / Terry Tempest Williams -- Making religion / Edward O. Wilson.