A Simplicity of Faith: My Experience in Mourning Book

	Editor's Foreword	11
	Preface: Biography as Theology	15
	"Dead of Winter"	24
I	Dread	25
	A touch of "flu"	25
	Deathwatch	28
	A familiarity with death	29
	A premonition of death?	33
	The obituary of God	36
	A discretion in dying	38
	The idolatry of death	43
	The felicity of Anthony Towne	50
	"Alpha"	53
II	Conversion	54
	A "minor exorcism"	54
	Retaliation	58
	A rehearsal of dying	62
	Adding insult to injury	63
	A need to pray	66
	On being an heir	71
	The significance of Block Island	74
	The political temptation	78
	"Endscape"	81
III	Solitude	82
	Requiem	82
	Sojourn with the circus	86
	A community endeavor	91
	An island is a ghetto, too	94
	An edifying catechism	100
	St. Ann's-in-the-Sea	101
	Has God abandoned the Church?	103
	A song of hope	105
	"End Time"	114
IV	Joy	115
	Let the dead bury the dead	115
	The freedom of the dead	117
	A "medicine man"	122
	A lawyer's work	125
	Advocacy as a pastoral gift	131
	Reprise	133
	A view of afterdeath	137
	A eucharist at Calvary	141
	"Poem"	143