A journey both of individual healing and society's response to the question of life after life follows a single father just released from prison as he sets out to prove that the mysterious calls from beyond to the residents of Coldwater, Michigan, are nothing but a hoax.

Concise readable introductions to about seventy of the greatest books and authors with 185 illustrations. Includes brief quotations from the classics, and insights from Christian literary scholars.

"Composed in the difficult years since [having written a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death] and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, [this book] is a ... meditation on what a viable contemporary faith--responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious tradition--might feel like"--Dust jacket flap. Seven years ago, Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous...