I seem to like collections of essays. I found this one today and will see if I remember reading any of these.

Amazon Editorial Review

Philip Zaleski, an acclaimed writer and the editor of the series, has once again assembled an outstanding collection of thirty-five pieces that range far and wide in subject matter and style. In “The Cellular Church,” Malcolm Gladwell takes a look at the pastor Rick Warren, and Mary Gordon’s “Moral Fiction” explores the place of value judgments in literature. Michael Chabon describes his childhood fascination with the darkness and “silliness” that pervade the world of the Norse gods, and Katherine Paterson, an award-winning children's book writer, describes how faith plays a role in her work. Miles Hoffman and Wendell Berry both decry the loss of soul, the former speaking of modern music and its dire need for a miracle, and the latter of modern agriculture, which has strayed perilously far from its roots. The range of the volume is immense, stretching from Edward Hoagland’s discussion of America's social breakdown to Helen Tworkov’s analysis of the inherent conflict between feminism and Buddhism to Corby Kummer’s deliciously simple recipe for kosher almond cake.

The poems, too, run the gamut of human experience, with contributions from such distinguished poets as Mark Doty, Charles Martin, V. Penelope Pelizzon, Louis Simpson, C. K. Williams, and John Updike. The Best American Spiritual Writing 2006 is sure to please not only lovers of spiritual writing, but also those who long for writing that illuminates a vast range of issues beyond our immediate line of sight.

Further: It seems like this series ended in 2013. Editor Phillip Zaleski is still active:

The author and editor of several books on religion and spirituality, Zaleski regularly writes essays and reviews on religion, culture, and the arts appear for national periodicals including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and First Things. For many years Zaleski was a book critic for the Boston Phoenix, and he later worked as executive editor and senior editor at Parabola Magazine, where he contributed frequent essays on Christianity and other world religions. During this period he also published a pioneering essay on Vladimir Nabokov's lepidoptery, which won him the David McCord Essay Prize. Of interest to anyone interested in The Best Spiritual Writing series, is Zaleski's 1999 compilation of a list of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the 20th Century, published by Harper Collins.

Zaleski has also been a teacher of religion, literature, film, and creative writing at Wesleyan University, Smith College, and Tufts University. A primary subject of Zaleski's is prayer, which he has described in a television interview as "communication between the human and transcendent realms, an act that for most people means talking with a personal God, coming into the presence of a Person who cares about them and loves them and can offer them help. This communication may in time become a two-way street, as God responds. Vast numbers of people report this sort of experience and make it the basis of their daily lives, people who wake up every morning, pray, and believe that they have been in communion with God. They pray to God and receive an answer. And this relationship makes people profoundly happy, which tells us that prayer is something essential to our nature, as if it were hardwired in us." The author of many books, he is the son of
Malta-born artist Jean Zaleski.

(edited from Wikipedia)

Spring cleaning uncovered this book I'd forgotten. I've had it, I suspect, for a lot longer than when I registered it eight years ago. Perhaps I'll finally read it or remember reading it. Finding this book is proof that I enjoy essays. This series seems to have ended in 2013. It began publishing in 2004.

Reading some of these essays brought back memories from 2006, which now seems like a far away era. I hope these will be enjoyed by another reader soon.

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