Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: spirituality, ethnography, and teaching / Will Ashton and Diana Denton -- Narrative voices -- Negotiating spirit / Ronald J. Pelias -- From the ash / Larry Russell -- Pilgrimmage, rock, and spirit / Jim Perkinson -- -- The Professional suicide of a Japanese woman teacher / Kimiko Akita -- The weaver's thread : how name, story, and prayer form the braid of my spiritual life / Peninnah Schram -- "Think" : transcending Unitarian and Mormon teaching / David C. Price -- From agnostic to evangelical : how an unlikely conversion birthed a unique convergence / Lori West Peterson -- Calling / Deanna l. Fassett -- An intersession carol : for Gloria Anzaldua, Teresa Brennan, and Stanford Lyman, with apologies to Charles Dickens / Caren S. Neile -- Performative voices -- Re-imagining the wound : of innocence, sacrifice & gift / Diana Denton -- Attending to winter : a poetics of research / Carl Leggo -- Living inquiry--a gateless gate and a beach / Karen Meyer -- Dreaming, writing, teaching : stories from within thin places / Christopher N. Poulos -- Worlds apart : the Brujo, the Ayahuasca, and the accidental tourist -- Voices of practice -- Wilderness trails, spiritual journeys, and education / Kip Redick -- Lost in translation : tracking spirit during a career change / Isolde K. Anderson -- Teaching from the inside out / Sam Crowell and David Reid-Marr -- The lessons of new ventures / Deborah Clark Vance -- Communication with spirit / James Crocker-Lakness -- Following the course of the water / Anne Mancl -- Teaching to the music of my soul : catching on to the beat of learners' hearts / Elizabeth J. Tisdell.