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Looking Around for God
The Oddly Reverent Observations of an Unconventional Christian

by James Autry

Contents

Foreword by Bill Moyers

Acknowledgments

Preface

Section One: Looking Around for God Every Day

Chapter One: Lessons from the Heart
• Poem: Sunrise Flight into Chicago

Chapter Two: God at the Track Meet
• Poem: Egypt (3/31/90)

Chapter Three: Finding Life’s Lessons in the Death Notices
• Poem: Meditation

Chapter Four: Simple Gifts
• Poem: Grave Digger

Chapter Five: Embracing the Everyday Holiness
• Poem: The Resurrection

Chapter Six: Finding God at Work
• Poem: Of Corporations and Communion

Chapter Seven: Where Are You Spending Eternity?
• Poem: Questions for a Seventeen-year Cicada

Chapter Eight: Chasing After a Miracle
• Poem: Something Like a Prayer

Chapter Nine: Mystical Blessings
• Poem: Messages

Chapter Ten: Prayer for a Country Preacher
• Poem: Prayer for a Country Preacher

Chapter Eleven: Angels Everywhere
• Poem: On Paying Attention

Chapter Twelve: Unexpected Communion
• Poem: Taking Communion to the Shut-ins

Chapter Thirteen: What about Those Close Calls?
• Poem: Jeopardy

Chapter Fourteen: Finding Bible Stories at the Movies

Section Two: Looking Unconventionally at the Church

Chapter Fifteen: Preach the Whole Story (And Treat Me Like a Grown-up)
• Poem: Barb’s Baby

Chapter Sixteen: It’s Time to Give Those Miracle Stories a Rest
• Poem: At the Autism Conference

Chapter Seventeen: “Soul Freedom” Under Siege
• Poem: Television and the Church

Chapter Eighteen: Sex and the Search for God
• Poem: Revival Meeting

Chapter Nineteen: Who Would Jesus Kill?
• Poem: On Hearing the Ukrainian Children Sing in Church

Chapter Twenty: Be Not Afraid
• Poem: Ghost Dance

Chapter Twenty-one: Getting the Government out of the Church’s Business
• Poem: The Edge of Love

Chapter Twenty-two: Just How Truly Accommodating Are Churches?
• Poem: Leo

Chapter Twenty-three: Sex and Sunday School
• Poem: Living with the Body

Chapter Twenty-four: The Trouble with Prayer
• Poem: Against All Those Desperate Prayers
• Poem: Learning to Pray

Chapter Twenty-five: I Love Jesus the Man

My Top Five Theological Questions

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