Meditation / John Donne -- from Grace abounding to the chief of sinners / John Bunyan -- from Prayers and meditations / Samuel Johnson -- from The idea of a university / John Henry Newman -- from The life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass -- Salvation / Langston Hughes -- Pray for your own discovery / Thomas Merton -- Icons of the true / Madeleine L'Engle -- A letter to Alfred Corn / Flannery O' Connor -- The dwarves in the stable / Frederick Buechner -- Adam's peace / Henri Nouwen -- God and country / Wendell Berry -- from An American childhood / Annie Dillard -- How I found religion at a baseball game / Robert A. Fink -- The call / A.N. Wilson -- from Places left unfinished at the time of creation / John Philip Santos -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The grand inquisitor / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- How much land does a man need? / Leo Tolstoy -- If not higher / I.L. Peretz -- The joy of Nelly Deane / Willa Cather -- Rope / Katherine Anne Porter -- Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty -- The jewbird / Bernard Malamud -- Unzen / Shusako Endo -- Revelation / Flannery O'Connor -- Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Kidd / Alice Munro -- Pigeon feathers / John Updike -- The priest of the sun / N. Scott Momaday -- The old Halvorson place / Larry Woiwode -- The welcome table / Alice Walker -- Line of duty / Albert Haley -- Fowles in the frith -- Now goeth sunne under wode -- I would be clad -- The spring under the thorn -- Sonnet 146 / William Shakespeare -- from Salve dues rex judæorum / Æmilia Lanyar -- Holy sonnet 7 ; Holy sonnet 10 ; Holy sonnet 14 / John Donne -- The windows ; The collar ; The pulley / George Herbert -- Sonnet 7 ; Sonnet 9 ; Sonnet 18 ; Sonnet 19 ; Sonnet 23 / John Milton -- A letter to her husband, absent upon public employment / Anne Bradstreet -- The world ; Religion ; And do they so? / Henry Vaughan -- Meditation 8 (first series) / Edward Taylor -- from In Memoriam A.H.H. / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Obedience / George MacDonald -- Good Friday ; Up-hill / Christina Rossetti -- A wounded deer leaps highest ; The world is not conclusion ; I measure every grief I meet ; Faith is the pierless bridge ; There came a day / Emily Dickinson -- God's grandeur ; Pied beauty ; As kingfishers catch fire ; [Carrion comfort] / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot -- No beauty we could desire ; Stephen to Lazarus ; from Five sonnets / C.S. Lewis -- Who am I? / Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- from Twelve songs ; Musée des beaux arts / W.H. Auden -- A skull ; A poor Christian looks at the ghetto ; Before majesty / Czeslaw Milosz -- A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London / Dylan Thomas -- Love calls us to the things of this world / Richard Wilbur -- St. Thomas Didymus ; Window-blind / Denise Levertov -- Saint Francis and the sow ; Wait / Galway Kinnell -- Christmas trees / Geoffrey Hill -- The slip / Wendell Berry -- Faith is a radical master ; The waltz we were born for ; The dark, hollow halo of space / Walter McDonald -- Alternative lifestyle for the quietly desperate ; A heartrending tale / Ann Applegarth -- A psalm for running water ; Angels in winter / Nancy Willard -- Little blessing for my floater ; A bestiary for the birth of Christ / Jeanne Murray Walker -- Manna / Marjorie Stelmach -- Stars ; Unholy sonnet 14 / Mark Jarman -- The theology of delight ; The theology of doubt ; The spiteful Jesus ; The more earnest prayer of Christ / Scott Cairns -- From blossoms ; The gift / Li-Young Lee -- The passion / The York Master, Tony Harrison -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / William Shakespeare -- Talking pictures / Horton Foote.