I was just Wondering

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Part I: The human animal -- The universe and my aquarium -- Endangered wildness -- Winter luxuries -- A theology from dirty jokes -- High school reunion -- The new determinism -- The problem of pleasure -- Part II: In the world -- The midnight church -- Jogging past the AIDS clinic -- Not a bad place to start -- Morality that pays -- Scorpions, worms, and missiles -- Pinochet and the pope -- A haunting deathbed confession -- Merely human -- Part III: Among the believers -- Love and power -- PTL postmortem -- The way up -- Trivial pursuits -- Mormons, Pharisees, and other good folks -- No right to scorn -- Growing up fundamentalist -- Morbidly healthy -- Part IV: Necessary voices -- Dastardly deeds of deflation -- A converted imagination -- The risks of relevance -- Two stubborn calves -- The rejected one -- Forward to the past -- Part V: Life with God -- The jilted lover -- Mixed metaphors -- "Do it again!" -- Thoughts about Jesus while standing in a dilapidated diner -- The spirit of arranged marriages -- Job and the riddles of suffering -- The hardship ladder -- God plays favorites -- King David's spiritual secret -- Part VI: Another world -- Beware black holes -- Born-again mathematics -- Whatever happened to heaven? -- Imagine there's no heaven -- Sunday afternoon at the beach -- Disturbing the universe -- The fragrant season.