Saturday 31 March 2012

Imaging Hope






Philippine Human Rights Defenders Bring Concerns to Canada: Cross-Country Tour: March 27 - April 16, 2012



"Imaging Hope" is the phrase that comes to me as I reflect on the stories I heard from 
Dr. Merry Mia-Clamor and Ms. Angelina Bisuña Ipong, two former political prisoners who were subjected to torture, sexual harassment and physical abuse while incarcerated in the Philippines.  Dr. Mia-Clamor and Ms. Ipong, along with Bishop Reuel Norman Marigza, shared their experiences of desolation and hope with us at Emmanuel College Chapel in Toronto on March 29, 2012.  They will be sharing their stories across Canada from March 27 to April 16 this year.  

Here is a detailed information about the speakers from KAIROS Canada - http://www.kairoscanada.org/countries-of-concern/philippines/philippine-human-rights-delegation-to-canada/ .

A Red Rose for Andrea: Writings from Prison is a book Ms. Angelina Bisuña Ipong wrote with Mars Marata and other political prisoners to inform the outside world of the situations in the Philippines.  Angelina dedicates the book to "her daughter Andrea and to all the sons and daughters of political prisoners."  You can contact KAIROS Canada to order a copy of the book.  Purchasing the book would help support the political prisoners in the Philippines. 

Angelina Bisuña Ipong now works as Coordinator of the Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainee Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (Association of Ex-Detainees Against Detention and Arrest) and former political detainee.

Dr. Ligaya Lindio-McGovern, professor of Sociology in Indiana University in the USA, wrote the following in the forward:

     "The number of documented victims of extrajudicial killings is much higher than the number of political prisoners:
      350 political prisoners over more than a thousand extrajudicial killings [in the Philippines in the last 10 years]."

It will take a while for me to process and to reflect on the stories the three courageous people from the Philippines.  

"I will not deny Thee."  Words on the banner in the chapel pierced my heart as I was listening and capturing the images of the three courageous disciples of Jesus of Nazareth.  I was reminded of the image of the Crucified Woman as I looking at the faces of so many young women imprisoned, disappeared, and murdered in the  Philippines.  I share the images of sunflowers to reflect hope expressed through Angelina's poem in her book. 

What did I hear?
How did I hear?
What do I do with the stories?
How do I make them part of my life and ministry?
What are the challenges and opportunities for me as I engage with those stories?
How do I express my commitment to walk in solidarity with those who are suffering  as they struggle for justice in the Philippines and in other parts of the Global Village?
What did I miss?
How would I ever know what I missed hearing, seeing, and connecting?

I would like to invite you to walk with those questions as we walk toward Jerusalem with Jesus of Nazareth in this liturgical season.

Here are the images of the speakers whose words and gestures embody and enliven hope, compassion, justice, and the liberating breath of God.








Thursday 29 March 2012

A time for every matter under heaven




Ecclesiastes 3 (NRSV)

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 


a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away; a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.



















What gain have the workers from their toil? I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with. He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; moreover, it is God's gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil. 







































I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has done this, so that all should stand in awe before him. That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already is; and God seeks out what has gone by. Moreover I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there as well. I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work. I said in my heart with regard to human beings that God is testing them to show that they are but animals. For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and humans have no advantage over the animals; for all is vanity. All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knows whether the human spirit goes upward and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth? So I saw that there is nothing better than that all should enjoy their work, for that is their lot; who can bring them to see what will be after them?
























































Professor Dr. Fred Kimball Graham

Deer Park Assistant Professor of Church Music
University Organist
Director of Chapel
Director of the Master of Sacred Music Program

At his retirement party on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at Emmanuel College, Victoria University in the University of Toronto.




Monday 26 March 2012

Seeking




"Myths derive from the visions of people searching their own most inward world.
Out of myths cultures are founded."

Joseph Campbell,
Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor



I read Gilgamesh, contemporary with the oldest parts of the Hebrew bible, and The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse. Reading both along with Joseph Campbell's Thou Art That, a collection of essays and lectures on myths, provided me to appreciate more on the inner journey. 

In Gilgamesh there were three birds freed after the Great Flood. First, a dove. A dove returned because it could not find a place to land. A swallow was freed after a dove returned, it also returned after a while. Finally, a raven was freed. It never returned. That was the sign that there was a dry land somewhere on earth. That was when all the birds in the ark was freed, scattering to the wind. A raven was the bird that found a dry land.

Three quotes from The Journey to the East:

"[One] who travels far will often see things
Far removed from what [one] believed was Truth."

"The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and senseless desire – the desire to forget."

"Next to the hunger to experience a thing, [people] have perhaps no stronger hunger than to forget."

It's good to consciously take time to reflect. What a gift I have received. 

Journey of a soul, my inner being, carried partly through my physical body, is something I am pondering in my sabbatical. 

I have been reading and organizing for my upcoming trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico. How much do I want to experience while I am there? This is a difficult question. There are so many events I could be part of while I am there. Balancing, finding harmony, between reflection in solitude and reflection with people in Santa Fe area is something I am struggling with at this point. 

Like anything in life, each choice provides a challenge and an opportunity. I am conscious of the inner journey in relation to my physical journey in my sojourn in Santa Fe, New Mexico – a place of pueblos, a place where the culture of the indigenous folks is still very visible. 

“I am seeking” may be an apt way to describe my hope in this journey. How I am open to the challenges and opportunities will shape my experience of this part of my sabbatical journey.





Monday 19 March 2012

Seeking to be free



"Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free."

Leonard Cohen, Bird on the Wire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qvW63z1uzg&feature=related 


I was in Hamilton this weekend to celebrate my good friend Bill MacKinnon's 60th birthday.  We met in 1985 at Emmanuel College.  We've gone through various metamorphosis in the past 27 years.  

Family and friends joined us to celebrate Bill's birthday.  John Asling, another good friend of Bill and me, flew in from London, England to be part of the celebration. 

I once read that "Good friends are like stars.  You don't always see them, but you know they are always there."  I know Bill and John have been two of those stars in my life.

I was thinking about friendship - a relationship that is integral in being human - and other words that describe experiences of being one with Sacred Beauty as I was taking photos on that day.  I have experienced that good friends support you to be free to become who you are meant to be.

Here are the images I want to share as I celebrate my friendship with Bill and John.



























Tuesday 13 March 2012

Visual Resources



"End of story, start of parable.  End of reading, starting of thinking."

John Dominic Crossan,
The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus


Here is a list of video resources I found helpful in my sabbatical journey.  I will be updating the list along the way.

When I was challenged by the images and contents of the video I asked myself the following questions: 

  • Is it because the material made me uncomfortable and uneasy with my socio-economic status quo?
  • Does the material challenge and invite me to re-examine my assumptions and norms about the world I have known and experienced?
  • What am I going to do with the challenges I have experienced?


May the the content of the materials be as challenging, nurturing, and inviting as I have experienced them.

2. Naif Al-Mutawa: Superheroes inspired by Islam
http://www.ted.com/talks/naif_al_mutawa_superheroes_inspired_by_islam.html 


3. "Miss Representation": Official Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gkIiV6konY&feature=share


4. The Cyrus Cylinder: The Policy of Cultural Diversity of the Persian Empire imprinted in 539 - 530 BCE
http://www.ted.com/talks/neil_macgregor_2600_years_of_history_in_one_object.html?source=facebook#.T1aX03pGYb5.facebook


5. JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/jk_rowling_the_fringe_benefits_of_failure.html


6. 25th Anniversary United Church Apology to First Nations Peoples
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBJGjB07HrU&feature=share 

7. Note to Self by Maya Angelou
       http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/22/maya-angelou-note-to-self_n_1291452.html?ref=fb&ir=Black+Voices&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=2161133,b=facebook 


8. Anoushka Shankar plays Pancham Se Gara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CnhcGpmH9Y&feature=share 


9. Cornel West at RIT for Martin King Jr. Event
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0ruCLef3Gr8 


10. James Nachtwey's searing photos of war
http://www.ted.com/talks/james_nachtwey_s_searing_pictures_of_war.html 


11. The Prayer of Children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTZFIcqnQMg 
Information on the background of the song - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_of_the_Children


12 Isabel Allende on Stories
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/isabel_allende_tells_tales_of_passion.html 


13. Amy Tan on Creativity
http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_tan_on_creativity.html 


14. Julia Alvarez, 2009 National Book Festival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZTxT34fI5Q 


15. Susan Cain: The power of Introverts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c0KYU2j0TM4 


16. Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein - A Short Film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EEZkQv25uEs#! 


17. Rick Smolan tells the story of a girl
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/rick_smolan_tells_the_story_of_a_girl.html 


18. Kristen Ashburn's photos of AIDS
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/kristen_ashburn_s_heart_rending_pictures_of_aids.html 


19. Robert Munsch Sings "Love you forever" song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFX6pdwJWpA&feature=share 


20. Report from Durban
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HIfDJx44iu0#! 


21. VisuraMagazine
http://www.visuramagazine.com/ 


22. How To Be Alone by Tanya Davis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs&feature=player_embedded


23. The Most Astounding Fact, video by Max Schlickenmyer - Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson's interview with TIME magazine 
http://vimeo.com/38101676 


24. Reconnecting with Compassion,  Krista Tippett
http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=2262 


25. Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html

26. What if Starbucks Marketed Like a Church? A Parable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKUkz0nnp_8&feature=related 


28. 5 Tips for Welcoming Church Visitors, United Methodist Church, USA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=con0t6n4jgM&feature=related 


29. Videos - church hospitality etiquette
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCHY6Ppztd8&feature=related 


30. Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntTtxVNjpJ8 


31. Making Our Churches More Accessible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLnLA3wS6O0&feature=related


32. Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability
http://vimeo.com/36562303 


38. Old Man In Nursing Home Reacts To Hearing Music From His Era
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NKDXuCE7LeQ#!

39. Silver & Light by Ian Ruhter
http://ianruhter.tumblr.com/











Monday 12 March 2012

Issues and Ideas to consider




"Forget definition, forget assumption, watch."

Marilynne Robinson


Here is a list of ideas and issues I would like to consider during or after my sabbatical.  These are something KRU and other congregations could consider in ministry.  The order is based on the date I came across the article (oldest to new).


1.  Worship and Education for All by Stephen Chapin Garner with Jerry Thornell (Excerpted and adapted from Scattering Seeds: Cultivating Church Vitality by Stephen Chapin Garner with Jerry Thornell , copyright © 2012 by the Alban Institute.  All rights reserved.
http://www.alban.org/conversation.aspx?id=9894


2.  On Adult Education and Learning Styles.
http://online.rit.edu/faculty/teaching_strategies/adult_learners.cfm


3. Photographing Dog's Last Moments

Friday 9 March 2012

On Sabbath Journey 2




"There are so many ways to find meaning, if we stop to look."

Catherine Faith MacLean


Here is another wonderful account of Sabbath journey from the Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Pastoral Leaders alumna Rev. Dr. Catherine Faith MacLean.


"Constellations of Meaning: Looking Beyond the Milky Way" -

http://www.resourcingchristianity.org/clergy-sabbatical/constellations-of-meaning-looking-beyond-the-milky-way



Wednesday 7 March 2012

Books for the Sabbatical Journey




"When the darkness appears
And the night draws near,
And the day is past and gone,
At the river I stand,
Guide my feet, hold my hand.
Take my hand, precious Lord,
Lead me home."

Thomas A. Dorsey, Take My Hand, Precious Lord



Here is a reading list that will be expanding over the next four months.  The books represent the area of my interest in relation to photography as a metaphor – and possibly an instrument of a parable – of the world.



March - June, 2012


Ali, Tariq. Conversations with Edward Said. London: Seagull Books, 2006.
Baldwin, James. The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings, edited and with an introduction by Randall Kenan. 1st ed. New York: Vintage International Edition, 2011.
Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2012.
Baum, Gregory. Compassion and Solidarity: The Church for Others. Toronto: House of Anansi Press Inc., 1992.
Borg, Marcus J. Speaking Christian: Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power –  And How They Can Be Restored. 1st ed. New York: HarperOne, 2011.
Buber, Martin. I and Thou, translated by Walter Kaufmann. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970.
Campbell, Joseph. Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor, edited and with a forward by Eugene Kennedy. Novato: New York Library, 2001.
Cardinal, Tantoo. et al. Our Story: Aboriginal Voices on Canada's Past. Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2005.
Choy, Wayson. Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2009.
Copper, Afua. Copper woman and other poems. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2007.
Crossan, John Dominic. The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus. 1st ed. New York: HarperOne, 2012.
Dixon, Glenn. Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A Journey Through the 6,000 Languages of Earth. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2009.
duChemin, David. Photographically Speaking: A deeper Look at Creating Stronger Images. Berkeley: New Riders, 2012. 
Edugyan, Esi. Half-Blood Blues. Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2011.
Ferry, David, trans. Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992.
Gendler, J. Ruth, ed. Changing Light: The Eternal Cycle of Night and Day. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.
Harmon, William. ed., The Top 500 Poems. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.
Hertzler, Janelle Shantz. Seasons of Solace: A Story of Healing through Photos and Poems. Austin: Synergy Books, 2010.
Heschel, Abraham Joshua David. The Sabbath. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
Edugyan, Esi. Half-Blood Blues. Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2011.

Hesse, Herman. The Journey to the East. New York: Picador, 1957.
Housden, Roger, ed. Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation. New York: Harmony Books, 2003.
__________. ten poems to change your life. 1st ed. New York: Harmony Books, 2001. 
Intrator, Sam M. & Scribner, Megan, eds. Leading from Within: Poetry that Sustains the Courage to Teach. 1st ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007. 
_________, eds. Teaching with Fire: Poetry that Sustains the Courage to Teach. 1st ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003. 
Ipong, Angelina Bisuña- with Mars Marata and Other Political Prisoners. A Red Rose for Andrea: Writings from Prison. Quezon City: Southern Voices Printing Press, 2012.

Iyer, Pico. The Man Within My Head. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Kai, Jeremy. Rivers Forgotten. 1st ed. Toronto: Koyama Press, 2011. 
Karr, Andy and Wood, Michael. The Practice of Contemplative Photography: Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes. Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 2011.
Keillor, Garrison. selected and introduced. Good Poems. New York: Viking, 2002.
Keillor, Garrison, ed. Good Poems for Hard Times. New York: Viking, 2005.
Kim, Eunjoo Mary. Preaching in an Age of Globalization. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010.
Kingsolver, Barbara. High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never. New York: HarperPerennial, 1995. 
Ladinsky, Daniel, trans. Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West. New York: Penguin Compass, 2002.
Lawliss, Charles. ... and God Cried: The Holocaust Remembered. North Dighton: JG Press, 1994.
Lederach, John Paul. The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace. New York: The Oxford University Press, 2005.
Leibovitz, Annie. Pilgrimage. New York: Random House, 2011.
Maddix, Tom. Running Scared: The Call of Pilgrimage. Ottawa: Novalis, 2005.
McClatchy, J. D. The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.
McLeod, Melvin and the editors of the Shambhala Sun, eds. The Best Buddhist Writing 2011. Boston: Shambhhala, 2011.
Merton, Thomas. Dialogues with Silence: Prayers & Drawings. ed by Jonathan Montaldo. 1st ed. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2001.
Merton, Thomas, trans. The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century. New York: A New Directions book, 1960.
Miller, E. Ethelbert, ed. In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1994. 
Milosz, Czeslaw, ed. A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry. Orlando: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1996. 
Mitchell, David. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob Zoet. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2010.
Moore, Honor, ed. Poems from the Women's Movement. New York: The Library of America, 2009.
Moyers, Bill. Healing and the Mind, eds. Betty Sue Flowers; executive editor, David Grubin. New York: Broadway Books, 1993. 
Murray, Joan. Poems to Live By In Troubling Times. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.
Nair, Parvati. A Different Light: The Photography of Sabastião Salgado. London: Duke University Press, 2011. 
Nepo, Mark. Surviving Has Made Me Crazy: Poems. 1st ed. Fort Lee: CavanKerry Press Ltd., 2007.
Nye, Naomi Shihab. This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from around the World. 1st ed. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 1996.
_________. Transfer: Poems by  Naomi Shihab Nye. 1st ed. Rochester: BOA Editions, Ltd., 2011.
Oe, Kenzaburo. Hiroshima Notes, translated by David L. Swain. New York: Grove Press, 1996.

_________. The Silent Cry, translated by John Bester. London: Serpant's Trail, 2011.
Okri, Ben. An African Elegy. London: Vintage, 1997.
Oliver, Mary. New and Selected Poems Volume Two. Boston: Beacon Press, 2005.
_________. Red Bird. Boston: Beacon Press, 2008.
_________. Thirst. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.
_________. Why I Wake Early. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.
Patchett, Ann. State of Wonder. New York: HarperCollins, 2011.

Parini, Jay. Why Poetry Matters. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
Patterson, Freeman. Photography and the Art of Seeing: A visual Perception Workshop for Film and Digital Photography. 4th ed. Richmond Hill: Firefly, 2011.
_________. Photography of Natural Things. Scarborough: Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishers, 1982. 
Phan, Peter C. In Our Own Tongues: Perspectives from Asia on Mission and Inculturation. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2003.
Porchia, Antonio. Voices, translated by W. S. Merwin. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2003.
Reynolds, Garr. Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery. Berkeley: New Riders, 2008.
Reynolds, Thomas E. Vulnerable Communion: A Theology of Disability and Hospitality. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2008.
Robinson, Marilynne. When I Was a Child I Read Books. 1st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Rowe, Wayne. Zen and the Magic of Photography: Learning to See and to Be through Photography. 1st ed. Santa Barbara: Rocky Nook, Inc., 2010.
Rukeyser, Muriel. eds. Kaufman, Janet E.  & Herzog, Anne F.The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 
_________. The Life of Poetry. Ashfield: Paris Press, 1996.
Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana. Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing, translations and commentary by Coleman Barks. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. 
Ryan, Kathy, ed. The New York Times Magazine Photographs. 1st ed. New York: aperturefoundation, 2011.
Sartwell, Crispin. End of Story: Toward an Annihilation of Language and History. New York: State University of New York Press, 2000. 
Shinder, Jason, ed. The Poem I Turn To: Actors and Directors Present Poetry That Inspires Them. Naperville: SourceBooks Media Fusion, 2008.
Jean Smith, ed. Everyday Mind: 366 Reflections on the Buddhist Path. 1st ed. New York: Riverhead Books, 1977.
Smith, Zadie. On Beauty. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2005.
Soyinka, Wole. The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Tagore, Rabindranath. Gitanjali: A Collection of Prose Translations Made by the Author from the Original Bengali. New York: Scribner Poetry, 1997.
Tagore, Rabindranath and Underhill, Evelyn, trans. Songs of Kabir. New York: MacMillan Company, 1916.
Vargas Llosa, Mario. Making Waves, edited and translated by John King. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Wagamese, Richard. Indian Horse. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2012.
Walker, Alice. Hard Times Require Furious Dancing. Novato: New World Library, 2010.
_________. The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult. New York: Washington Square Press,1997.
Wolfe, Gregory. Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith, and Mystery. 1st ed. Baltimore: Square Halo Books, 2003.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. New York: Harper Perennial, 2005.
Zaleski, Philip, ed, The Best Spiritual Writing 2010. New York: Penguin Books, 2011.