VOLUME 36 NUMBER 2 Summer 2011
6 STREET SAINT Miriam Faugno
Introducing “Father G”
7 CHICO Gregory Boyle
An uplifting excerpt from the book Tattoos on the Heart
13 THE KINGDOM OF GOD
A conversation with Gregory Boyle, the “Gandhi of the gangs”
22 STORY WATER / STORY WISDOM Margo McLoughlin
Telling stories can heal the deepest wounds
30 THE GIFT OF RECEIVING Jane Mickelson
In fairy tales, not all is as it seem
38 SACRED GIVING, SACRED RECEIVING Joseph Bruchac
Celebrating the American Indian Giveaway
44 SPANISH BOOTS OF SPANISH LEATHER Joshua Boettiger
Can we learn to ask for what we really need?
48 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ISHWAR PATEL Nipun Mehta
A life transformed by service
54 INTO THE DEPTHS Mary Margaret Funk
A storm from hell, an encounter with the Divine
66 A SHIFT IN PERSPECTIVE Birju Pandya
In which the author gives a book and receives back so much more
68 THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF “WE” Patty de Llosa
A report on how we can reshape our brains—and our minds
76 ETERNITY NOW
A conversation with the great trickster Wavy Gravy
82 SAINT MISBEHAVIN’
Parabola talks with Michelle Esrick, director of “The Wavy Gravy Movie“
88 MR. BRIGGS James Opie
An advance excerpt from the book Approaching Inner Work
94 THE GIFT OF DEATH Doug Thorpe
A friend lost, and found
POETRY: FOUR NEW POEMS BY Mary Oliver
28 IN MY HOUSE
29 THE WAY OF THE WORLD
52 THE MORNING PAPER
53 IF I WERE
ARCS
84 FOR EVERYONE WHO ASKS RECEIVES
EPICYCLES
18 THE ANTELOPE BIRTH Anonymous | Buddhist
Translated from the Pali and retold by Margo McLoughlin
60 ECHIDNA DREAMING Eddie Kneebone, Pangerang elder | Australian Aboriginal
Retold by Roxanne Bodsworth
TANGENT
102 THE WHITE LIGHT FESTIVAL Diane Wolkstein
In the heart of the city, three weeks of transcendent music
BOOK REVIEWS
106 PAUL REYNARD
Introduction by Jacob Needleman | reviewed by David Ulrich
111 KABBALAH AND MODERNITY
Edited by Boas Huss, Marco Pasi, and Kocku von Stuckrad | reviewed by Richard Smoley
115 THE FORGOTTEN LANGUAGE OF CHILDREN
Lillian Firestone | reviewed by Tracy Cochran
121 SHALOM/SALAAM
Thomas Block | reviewed by Pamela Jay Gottfried
123 MOTHER DO NOT WEEP FOR ME
Jenny Koralek | reviewed by Jeff Zaleski
128 ENDPOINT
