Shadow & light: literature and the life of faith

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.