For the Healing of the Nation offers a serious look at the social and political climate in the United States from a biblical perspective, emphasizing race and ""otherness,"" economics and the environment, and institutional violence (war and capital punishment). An autobiographical thread traces the journey of a white male coming of age in the mid-twentieth-century Deep South as his evolving faith leads him to painful breaks with inherited values and standard views on controversial issues. Critical not only of both major political parties but also of centrist compromises between Right and...