From the Book - First edition
Foreword: fitting our stories into God's / Eugene H. Peterson --
Introduction: greetings from the land of misfit toys / Jennifer Grant and Cathleen Falsani --
Just as I am / Cathleen Falsani --
Of feet and angelic netherbits / Tripp Hudgins --
Spinning / Debbie Blue --
The Bible: it's full of crap / Karen Swallow Prior --
Wherever two or three are gathered / Ian Morgan Cron --
The gentle fatalism of Ecclesiastes / LaVonne Neff --
One, single life / Ina Albert --
The inerrant [comma] inspired [comma] infallible word of God / Dale Hanson Bourke --
The end of the world as we know it / Katherine Willis Pershey --
"Piece" be with you / Greg Fromholz --
The scandal of Imago Dei / Caryn Rivadeneira --
Probably less holy than thou / Karen Walrond --
The vulnerable God / Kenneth Tanner --
Wrestling with hovering spirits / David Vanderveen --
Why isn't the link to the divine salvific download working? / Margot Starbuck --
One disgusting mess / Tracey Bianchi --
Evangelical blues, genograms, and the sins of the fathers, or the stories we tell ourselves / Jennifer Grant --
A high tolerance for ambiguity / Steve Brown --
Women and children first / Linda Midgett --
The necessity of solitude / Christopher L. Heuertz --
Mary and Martha, mom and me / Stephen Henderson --
God breathed / Gareth Higgins --
Willing and doing / David B. Fletcher --
The Bible: full of sound, fury, sarcasm, and poop jokes / Susan E. Isaacs --
The starlit way: confronting doubt with Jesus / Anna Broadway --
Stillness / Alice Currah --
Broken and bent / Ellen Painter Dollar --
SLUT! / Cathleen Falsani --
Apocalypse later / Jay Emerson Johnson --
Daydreaming of bed linens / Bill Motz --
Early-morning matters / Jack Palmer --
The miracle / Timothy King --
Running from "healing" to healing / Calenthia S. Dowdy --
The good shepherd / Victor Conrado --
Move down! clean cup! : pulling back the covers on Revelation / Christian Piatt --
Womb work and the uncomfortable idea of redemptive suffering / Rachel Marie Stone --
This is Buddha / Carolyn Reyes --
A tale of two mottoes / Jack Heaslip --
Seekers and sparrows and Sunday school / Jenny Sheffer Stevens --
Scriptural cherry-picking / Amy Julia Becker --
Women: be silent / Sarah Heath --
Tommy Bahama plays "melancholy baby" / Anthony Platipodis --
Rereading God's lessons / Jeff Tacklind --
The Eeyore of Christians learns to pray / Melody Harrison Hanson --
You must be born again / Carla Barnhill --
The greatest of these / Brian D. McLaren.
