Chapter 1: Saint Willie (Ode to Willie Nelson)

Chapter  2: Life, Death, Community . . . and Scrubs (Ode to Not Being Superman)

Chapter  3: All God’s Chillun Need a Livin’ Wage (Owed to Our Economy)

Chapter  4: Keeping Our Hands to Ourselves (Owed to Mike Yaconelli)

Chapter  5: Confronting the Whore Within: A Lenten Meditation (Owed to the Possum)

Chapter  6: For the Love of God (From a Cousin of Frank and Jesse James)

Chapter  7: Beating Golf Clubs Into Guitar Stands (Ode to the Allman Brothers Band)

Chapter  8: Strain Out the Gnats! The Poo Poo Has Hit the Fan! (Ode to Swallowing Camels)

Chapter  9: A Psalm for Sherman (Owed to Hunter S. Thompson)

Chapter  10: Sweeney Todd: Vengeful Barber of Biblical Proportions (Ode to Tim Burton)

Chapter  11: Gays, Baptists, and Killer Tomatoes (Ode to Bible “Experts”)

Chapter  12: Prostitution, Politics, and Grace in the Big Easy (Owed to a House in New Orleans)

Chapter  13: Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens (Ode to Poultry in Motion)

Chapter  14: The James Brown 3-Step to an Active Faith (Ode to . . . well, James Brown)

Chapter  15: Confessions of an LSU Convert (With Apologies to Mother)

Chapter  16: A Tale of a Man-Date (Owed to Arlo Guthrie)

Chapter  17: The Ballad of John and . . . John (Ode to John Lennon)

Chapter  18: When Love Comes to Town (A Christmas Meditation)