- Dedication
- Preface
- Ash Wednesday: Hitting the Lenten Road Together
- Things We Ignore Along the Way May Haunt Us
- A Reckless Woman and a Jar of Precious Oil
- Our Most Controversial Story Reveals a Cat in the Hat
- First Monday of Lent and Even the Stones Cry Out!
- Layers in Palms—and Onions, Too
- Confronting Coins, Cash, Capital and … Coffee
- As Tables Turn, is There Hope … or Despair?
- Trying to See the Tree, for the Forest
- But is John Lennon in Heaven?
- Painful Hatching of the Dixie Chicks
- When the Very Stones Become Spiritual IEDs
- Flipping Coins with Our Future in the Balance
- The Divine “Dramedy” of Those Wedding Tales
- More Weddings with an Ultimate Fashion Tip
- A Surprisingly Diverse Wedding Album
- Finally, We Get the T-Shirt!
- Teacups, Tombs and a Timeless Howl from Bono
- Jesus Puts in a Good Word for Ssss-Snakes!
- Envisioning a Mother’s Wings—and Her Pain
- Life Among the Tumbling Milestones
- Rumors of Wars and the Poetry of Joseph Brodsky
- Finding Joy in “The Physical World … Dancing”
- Minding Our Lamps and a Visit from Archbishop Tutu
- In This Kingdom, Even Coins Change Value
- Who Do You Trust: Uriah or Yunus?
- Values and Villains—Judas and Leni Riefenstahl
- Dipping into the First of Three Basins
- Sister Aimee Empties and Tries to Refill the Bowl
- Breaking Bread with a Loving French Chef
- Jesus’ Two Cups and Pouring Ourselves into the World
- Jesus and a Shakespearean Tale of Two Swords
- A Third Basin, Hannah Arendt and Banality of Evil
- Kindness of Strangers and Danger of Betrayal
- Finally Confronting the Naked Truth
- The Timeless Mystery of the Fourth Table
- A Rolling Stone and Emily Dickinson’s Overcoat
- Heartburn from the Stranger Dead Ahead
- Exquisite Taste Around the Fifth Table!
- Carrying Stories to Fill the Whole World
- About the Author
- Colophon