| Foreword | ix |
| I. | They Shall Beat Their Swords into Plowshares | |
| 1. | Courage Is a Verb: In Other Words, Do it! | 3 |
| 2. | We Are Filled with Hope: The Tale of the Plowshares Eight | 12 |
| 3. | In Better Hands Than Our Judges' | 23 |
| 4. | Hiroshima and the Church of the Blind Gods | 27 |
| 5. | The Cause Is the Heart's Beat | 30 |
| II. | The way, the Truth, and the Life | |
| 6. | The Face of Christ | 41 |
| 7. | The "I Am" Sayings of Jesus: In Christ, God Imagines God | 45 |
| 8. | Love Your Enemies: There Is No Just War; the Gospel Is Always Relevant | 54 |
| 9. | Jesus and the Syrophoenician Woman | 63 |
| 10. | You Shall Love | 70 |
| 11. | John the Baptist Sends Inquirers | 75 |
| 12. | Christ before Pilate, Witnessing to the Truth | 80 |
| III. | Prophets and Peacemakers | |
| 13. | The Long Loneliness of Dorothy Day | 85 |
| 14. | Martin Luther King Jr. and the Arm of Justice | 98 |
| 15. | Thomas Merton, Friend and Monk | 102 |
| 16. | Archbishop Romero, the Four Churchwomen, and the Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador | 106 |
| 17. | The Colors of Corita Kent | 113 |
| 18. | The Promised Land of Rabbi Abraham Heschel | 123 |
| 19. | William Stringfellow and the Eschaton | 131 |
| 20. | The Faithful Witness of Philip Berrigan | 136 |
| 21. | Poems for Philip in Prison | 140 |
| 22. | Homily for My Brother, Philip Berrigan | 143 |
| IV. | Sermons and Homilies | |
| 23. | Keeping the Flame Alive: Maccabees and the Fire of Peace | 149 |
| 24. | Three Youths and the Fiery Furnace | 153 |
| 25. | Learn a Lesson from the Fig Tree | 158 |
| 26. | The World as Machine, the World as Vine | 161 |
| 27. | Love One Another as I Have Loved You | 164 |
| 28. | Living as Though the Text Were True | 167 |
| 29. | The Gods of the Millennium | 171 |
| V. | Christians in a Warmaking State | |
| 30. | The Prophetic, Peacemaking Church | 175 |
| 31. | Prophecy | 178 |
| 32. | The Handbook of Christian Refusers | 180 |
| 33. | The Trouble with Our State | 194 |
| 34. | A Chancy Encounter with an Angel | 195 |
| 35. | The Strange Case of the Man Who Could Not Please Anyone | 197 |
| 36. | The Catholic Bishops Approve Bush's War (November 2001) | 200 |
| 37. | The Faith That Seeks Justice and Makes Peace | 202 |
| 38. | Advent | 211 |
| 39. | Our Hope in Christ | 213 |
| 40. | An Ethic of Resurrection | 220 |
| 41. | Hope, That Intransitive Being | 226 |
