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With humorous stories and serious reflections Friend-Jones juxtaposes Biblical commentary with theatre mimes and Amtrak journeys. He celebrates Welsh singing at national rugby matches, diagnoses "minor key angst" and reveals how Charles Ives saved his soul. A truly angelic Christmas cocktail party leads to an astonishing theological conclusion, while he discerns an elusive darkness behind so much holiday joy. He lives the harrowing question, "Can one embrace a tragic view of life and be a person of faith?" He shares his delightful correspondence with a Shih Tzu, and he claims to know...

"Easter provides the basis for us to make a bold assertion of hope when there is no reason to hope. Religion provides us with the purpose for living when life itself is painful. Faith enables us to give up what we desire most desperately, trusting that God already knows and provides for our deepest and truest needs." Moving easily between history, theology and personal experience, the author brings a compassionate outlook, an unconventional spirituality and a gentle sense of humor to his reflections on Lent and Easter. These sermons begin where pain and hope intermingle, and myth and history...