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Whistling in the Dark A Doubter’s Dictionary Frederick Buechner To The Dudley Knot Contents Introduction xi A 1 Abortion 1 Adolescence 2 Advent 2 Aging 3 Alcoholics Anonymous 4 Algebraic Preaching 5 Animals 6 Anorexia 8 Anxiety 10 Apologists 12 Arms Race 13 Art 15 Awe 17 B 19 Beatitudes 19 Beauty 21 Believing 21 Boredom 22 Born Again 23 Brothers 24 C 26 Chanting 26 Charismatic 26 Childhood 27 Christmas 29 Comedy 31 Communion of Saints 32 Conversion 33 D 35 Darkness 35 Denominations 36 Depression 38 Descent into Hell 39 Divorce (See Law of Love) 40 Dreams 40 Dying 41 E 43 Earth 43 Easter 44 Enemy 46 F 48 Faces 48 Family 50 Father 51 Female 52 Friends 53 Funeral 55 G 57 Game 57 Gentleman/Gentlewoman 58 Ghost 59 Goodbye 60 Government 61 H 63 Hate 63 Hearing 63 Heaven 64 Help 65 Holocaust 66 Homosexual 67 I 69 Imagination 69 Innocence 70 J 72 Jobs 72 Jogging 72 Joke 73 Justice 74 K 76 King 76 Knowledge 77 L 80 Law of Love 80 Lent 82 Loneliness 83 Lord’s Prayer 83 M 85 Male 85 Marriage 86 Me 87 Money 88 Mother 89 N 90 Nakedness 90 Narcotics 91 Nature 92 Nave 93 Neurotics 94 News 96 O 98 Obedience 98 Observance 98 Old Age 99 P 102 Patriotism 102 Play 103 Politics 104 Psychotherapy 105 Q 107 Queen of Heaven 107 Quiet 107 R 109 Racism 109 Remember 110 S 112 Second Coming 112 Sexuality (See Homosexuality, Nakedness) 113 Sleep 113 Story 114 Suicide 115 T 117 Tears 117 Today 117 Touch 118 Tourist Preaching 119 Transfiguration 119 U 121 Unbelief 121 U.S.A. 121 V 123 Vanity 123 Virtue 124 W 125 Wisdom 125 Woman (See Depression, Female, Queen of Heaven, Wisdom) 125 Work 125 X 126 X-Rated 126

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Awry and thought-provoking jaunt through the spiritual terrain of our everyday language -- a lexion of uncommon insight to jar the mind and nourish the soul. "I think of faith as a kind of whistling in the dark, because in much the same way," writes Buechner, "it helps to give us courage and to hold
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