Table of Contents

1 Alternative to the Bread of Affliction

2 Preaching the Psalms

3 On Tenacious Parenting

4 The Litigation of Scarcity

5 Twin Themes for Ecumenical Singing: The Psalms

6 In the "Thou" Business: The Travail of Biblical Language . . . Again

7 Reaping the Whirlwind

8 The Poem: Subversion and Summons

9 The Impossible Possibility of Forgiveness

10 On Appearing before the Authorities

11 Getting Your Sibilants Right: The Evangelical Shibboleth

12 Do the Numbers

13 Awaiting the Verdict

14 At the Death of Peter Knauert: Peter amid Remembering and Hoping

15 Advantage McEnroe

16 What Does It Mean to Be Human?

17 When the Music Starts Again

18 The First Great Commandment

19 A Little Evangelical Geography

20 Toward Perfect Health

21 Peace: The Fruit of the Spirit

22 Three Key Moves toward White Extremism

23 A Retrospect