Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 10
Chapter 1 Better Off Dead 12
Section 1 Democracy of Death
Chapter 2 Everybody Dies 29
Chapter 3 Our Cross, His Cross 43
Chapter 4 Our Life, His Life 60
Section 2 The Wake of Faith
Chapter 5 The Anatomy Lesson 74
Chapter 6 Waiting and Waiting 83
Chapter 7 Welcome Back 99
Section 3 The Life of Martyrs
Chapter 8 The Death in Witness 109
Chapter 9 The Power of Evangelism 126
Chapter 10 Ready and Willing 141
Section 4 La Petite Mort (The Little Death of Trials)
Chapter 11 The Secret Life of Trials 149
Chapter 12 Death of a Thousand Cuts 164
Chapter 13 Flight to Phoenix 175
Section 5 Ode to Courage
Chapter 14 Taps 192
Chapter 15 Honorable Mention 202
Chapter 16 Ordinary Heroes 215
Section 6 Humbled and Mortified
Chapter 17 Humiliation 227
Chapter 18 Strip Search 237
Chapter 19 Being Ever So Humble 251
Section 7 The Passion of Love
Chapter 20 What is Love, Anyway? 267
Chapter 21 The Heart of Love 287
Chapter 22 The Heat of Passion 303
Epilogue: Requiem 319
Endnotes 333
