Here is Martin Marty, for instance, the great Protestant historian of religion, describing his "wintry spirituality" -- and insisting that taking a nap can be a form of prayer.
Robert Franklin notes that African-American church's "defiant spirituality."
Rabbi Irving Greenberg, former chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council Speaks of post-Holocaust theology that can be "credible in the presence of burning children."
Eileen Durkin, a cradle Catholic in Chicago, sees the world as sacramental and all life as a gift.
Rachel Remen, a physician, writer, and teacher in northern California speaks about the difference between healing and curing, and of responding with compassion to the pain of people "whose names we don't even know."
Madeleine L'Engle, one of whose books affirms the "hum of the universe," prompts Robert Wuthnow, the Princeton sociologist of religion, to make the qualification that, for him, the hum is in "a minor key."
Thomas Lynch, poet and funeral director, says, "Grief is the tax we pay on loving people."
Novelist Ann Lamott speaks of finding God in the utter dailyness and mess of it all," and calls laughter "carbonated holiness."
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