Surprised by Oxford Book

Contents

Preface: A Note on the Text and Terms....................xv
Prologue: Doubt Wisely....................1
1. All That You Can't Leave Behind....................11
2. The Father (W)hole....................25
3. Signs, Signs, Everywhere Are Signs....................37
4. The Storm Before the Calm....................45
5. The Poison Tree....................53
6. Shaken, Not Just Stirred....................63
7. Sweet-Talkin' Son of a Preacher Man....................81
8. Jesus, the Great Polarizer....................87
9. The Conundrum of Time....................99
10. Does Love Justify All?....................115
11. Tide Out: Have a Heimlich/Un-Heimlich Christmas (Home, but Not Home, for the Holidays)....................135
12. Tide In: Am I My Sister's Keeper?....................141
13. Tide Out: Forsaking All Others (Including the Self)....................153
14. Tide In: More Than a New Year....................169
15. Book Ends....................183
16. What If Jesus Had Been a Woman?....................191
17. Sehnsucht....................207
18. Butterflies in the Bookcase....................217
19. Professor Von X....................223
20. Throwing the Baby Out with the Baptism Water....................237
21. Psychomachia....................253
22. The Ultimate Valentine....................263
23. Tide Out: Good Friday, Riding Westward....................275
24. Tide In: Confessions of an Introverted Convert....................283
25. Tide Out: Do I Have to Be a LOUD Christian?....................297
26. Tide In: Dance Like a Fish....................305
27. Church Going....................321
28. Looking for the Loch Ness Monster....................331
29. Miss Georgia....................337
30. Bald in the Land of Big Hair....................345
31. Mary and Me....................369
32. Parousia....................381
33. All Joy Reminds....................393
34. Trinity Sunday, Trinity Term....................401
35. St. Margaret's Road....................413
36. Annus Mirabilis....................425
Epilogue: Believe Wisely....................435
Acknowledgments....................443
Notes....................449
About the Author....................457