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This collection of essays by Robert Funk delves into the contributions of notable artists and intellectuals, including Kafka, Beckett, Henry Miller, Castaneda, Fowles, and Thoreau, to illuminate the true successors of Jesus. In the section titled 'Voices of Silence,' Funk examines the interplay between language and contemporary reality. He ultimately addresses the pivotal theological question of whether individuals can identify a genuine world to which they can fully commit, offering twenty-one propositions on theology in response.

Hal Taussig examines new ways the historical Jesus can teach us to pray. A skilled biblical scholar, he pursues a trail of evidence that leads closer and closer to the historical Jesus. At the end he finds a Q Jesus Prayer—the earliest known form of the so-called Lord's Prayer—that is very different from the prayers of Jesus' contemporaries, from traditional church prayers, and from new fashions of spirituality. And in analyzing this prayer, Taussig discovers fragments that may well come from Jesus himself.