Foreword by Matt Litton     9
Acknowledgments     15
Author’s Preface    17

Part I—Our People

Introduction: Can I Get a Witness?
1  How Absurd is Your Christianity?   •  21
2  Christianity is for the Birds   •  25
3  The Theological Significance of One Strange Australian   •  28
4  A Dispossessed Carpenter’s Son and a Possessed Farmer   •  33
5  A Couple of Ineffective, Foolish Old Women   •  39
6  Maniac or Martyr?   •  43

Part II—Our Politics

Introduction: Lions and Lambs
7  Death by Hanging is Way Too Easy! (Try Torture Instead)   •  51
8  From Afghanistan to Georgia   •  55
9  On Asking Too Much   • 59
10  Who Mourns the Gods? Part 1   •  64
11  A Potential Non-Voting Manifesto   •  69
12  A Plea for a Few Good Christians to Move (Or, Stay Put!)   •  76

Part III—Our Praise

Introduction: Whose Liturgy? Which Holidays (Holy Days)?
13  A Simple Plea to the All-Powerful, All-Knowing and Entirely Beneficent God Who Really, Really Loves Sports (but not the Orioles or Some South Asians)   •  85
14  I Don’t Want to be a Scrooge, But . . .   •  88
15  Turkey, Genocide, and the Eucharist: An Argument for Fasting on Thanksgiving   •  92
16  Dethroning a King   •  97
17  Who Mourns the Gods? Part 2: A Memorial Day Reflection   •  100
18  Mother Mary   •  107

Epilogue or Eulogy?
The Fate of Christendom (with apologies to Soren K.)     111
Notes     114
Index     117
The Author     123