Part I. Does God exist? -- Faith and reason -- Glimpses in literature -- Indignation -- Dinner with an atheist and a Buddhist -- It's impossible to prove that God does not exist -- Papers in the street -- A four-year-old's view of God -- Is God real? -- Where is God? -- Part II. God and nature -- The amulet -- How sensitive do you want to be? -- Dominion -- First fruits -- Part III. Scriptures -- Reverend Jerry Falwell debates Michael Savage -- Exodus 18:21 -- Exodus--the ten commandments -- An eye for an eye -- The Garden of Eden -- East of Eden -- Genesis 2:5 and 2:8 -- Genesis 2:18 -- From tennis to temple's tempest -- A covenant with all the ills of the world -- The power of the searcher -- Passion's power -- Lotus from the muck -- Part IV. God and country -- Halloween is bigger than Christmas -- Burning man -- The new Marrano Jews -- Guilt in religion--Hillary's sins washed away -- How revolutionaries kill God -- An unlikely choice -- Faith and freedom -- The meaning of Passover -- Buddhism: the religion of submission -- No man is an island -- Part V. God and man -- Lonesome boy on cold sand -- Five out of seven -- Jewish gangster finds God -- Loss -- The meaning of Hanukkah -- Witness to the first moment -- Dancing with chasids -- Jerome's story -- My father's death -- Rabbi in a brothel (a fable) -- The room with a view to eternity -- The savage duality of man: animal soul, spiritual soul -- God is everywhere.