Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Depression and JoyChapter 2: A Peculiar Kind of Pain Chapter 3: MysteryChapter 4: Waiting for the Beauty of the RuinsChapter 5: A Ruin in the WoodsChapter 6: The Practice of I AMChapter 7: Moving the ImmovableChapter 8: TormentedChapter 9: Parochial AnorexiaChapter 10: Opening the MindEpilogue: Living in the Realm of NonethelessResourcesAcknowledgments

About the Author

A. Robert Hirschfeld served as a parish priest in academic communities (Yale, University of Connecticut, the Five Colleges of the Amherst, Massachusetts region) until becoming the Tenth Bishop of New Hampshire. His studies in literature and existential philosophy have informed his interpretation of the scriptural themes of alienation from God and the restoration of human dignity in Jesus. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College (BA English, 1983) and Berkeley Divinity School at Yale (MDiv 1991, DD 2013). He lives in Concord, New Hampshire.