TY - BOOK AU - Griffin,Robert F. AU - Baker,J.Robert AU - Moran,Dennis Wm TI - The Pocket-Size God: Essays from Notre Dame Magazine SN - 9780268080822 AV - BX2350.3 .G754 2016 U1 - 282/.73 PY - 2016/// CY - Notre Dame, IN PB - University of Notre Dame Press KW - Christian life-Catholic authors KW - Spiritual life-Catholic Church KW - Spirituality-Catholic Church KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- THE POCKET-SIZE GOD -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Late Have I Loved Thee, O Ancient of Days -- Somewhere, a Summer of '42 -- The Pocket-Size God -- Empty Spaces, Lonely Places -- A Letter to the Class of '73: Darby and I Never Said We Didn't Love You -- An Everlasting Morning -- Christmas on 42nd Street -- About Friendship -- I Remember the Fire -- On Ancient Rituals and Modern Youth -- Premarital Sex: Thou Shalt Not? -- The Holy Fool -- A Mass for the Littlest Christians -- You Cannot Sing a Night Song -- Simeon's Christmas -- Before the Daylight Fails -- A True Confession -- A Storybook Marriage -- A Brother's Requiem -- The Bag Lady's Windfall -- Part of the Myth -- Life in the Boot Camp Seminary -- Bill and Pat -- A Parting Gift -- "You Shall Be My Special Possession" -- You Get What You Need -- A Broken-Down Holy Man -- How He Plays the Game -- Facing Life without Father -- "I Have Chosen You" -- Under the Dome, Most of It Seems True -- "We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us" -- "I Prayed Like Hell Every Damn Night" -- In Defense of Those Who Care -- A Rabbi Hears Confession -- As American as God, Sin, and Jimmy Swaggart -- Confessions of a Bibliomaniac -- Apologia pro Vita Mea -- One Pope at a Time -- Love on Trial -- Mortal Friends -- The Flame Keepers -- The American Dream as a Religious Experience -- A Bridge Too Far -- And One of Them Was My Brother -- The Lost Youth of Mickey Ashford -- The Flower-Child Priest Comes Home to the Cross -- Stop the Fighting -- Alter Christus -- List of Sources N2 - This book is a collection of essays Robert F. Griffin, C.S.C., wrote for Notre Dame Magazine in which he considers many of the challenges that beset church and campus UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4453450 ER -