The Pocket-Size God : Essays from Notre Dame Magazine.
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- 9780268080822
- 282/.73
- BX2350.3 .G754 2016
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.
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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