Preface to the Paperback Edition Acknowledgments Introduction book one The Last Word 1. Something Serious 2. Flare-Up 3. Poet in a Trench Coat 4. Party in the Living Room, Torture in the Basement 5. Playing Hardball 6. I Don't Know 7. The Architecture of the Bible 8.

The First Two Threads 9. The Third and Fourth Threads 10. The Scapegoat Factor 11. Better Than We Realized 12. Something like a Straight Answer 13. End in Embrace? 14. Piano Lessons and Lumpy Hands 15. You Have a Tough Job 16.

All over the Map 17. Deconstructing Hell 18. Proposal, Plan, Implementation 19. Homework Assignment book two The Word After That 20. How Can I Hurt Him? 21. Nice Walleye Fishing Charters 22. Wolves in Lawyers' Tuxedos 23. Up Toward the Stars 24.

A Colorful Breakfast 25. A New Kind of Christianity 26. Second Thoughts 27. To God, All Are Alive 28. A Part of Me at the Core of My Mind 29. The Last, Best Word Epilogue Commentary The Author A Reader's Guide for The Last Word and the Word After That by Timothy Keel.