Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

Ginger says: This is the book that made my faith my own. Buechner was a Christian minister, but unlike any spiritual thinker I’ve ever come across. His novels and memoirs and sermons are irreverent reverence. They’re fresh and literary. This slim essay made me “listen to my life” for the echoes of the gospel that are as large in theme as any tragedy, comedy, or fairy tale I’d ever read… and then some.