Food for the Soul In Prayers to the God

In Prayers to the God of My Life

Eastern Christians have used their hands and hearts to create icons

Excerpts are long enough to give a satisfying and complete context of the writer’s intended meaning

How can our patterns of congregational life and mission renew themselves and adjust to changing culture without selling out what Episcopalians stand for

where her role as founding editor of the Religion Department at Publishers Weekly influenced the growth of spiritual writing and interfaith understanding during the 1990s

Food for the Soul In Prayers to the GodA collection of essays, poems, and stories from a soup kitchen writers' workshop The selections are funny, gritty and brutally honest, writing that attests to a raw spirituality formed and informed by life on the street. When these writers are given prompts like "It Was the Best Day," "So I Lied," "September Eleven," "My Best Mistake" or "In My Other Life," they hold nothing back. In his piece on "Recovering," Mackey reflects on how the writers'