In the introduction to this collection of 14 essays, editor Harold Fickett, a co-founder of the quarterly Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, writes: "Within the human spirit lies a disturbing counter to cynicism — a strange and almost inextinguishable hope that God loves us, that God hears us, and that God acts as if he does both." These Christian writers here all elucidate their faith in the Divine presence in their lives.
Madeleine L'Engle discusses her parapsychological gifts and how they have played out in experiences with her family and home. Ron Hansen, author of Mariette in Ecstasy reflects on the spiritual phenomenon of stigmata. Ron Austin writes about movies that have moved him and given analogies of miracles. Larry Woiwode marvels at God's immanence in creation. Paul C. Vitz tries to make a case to the modern intellectual community for the existence of a transcendent God. And Erin McGraw reverences Teresa of Avila as a "saint who feels cut closer to human scale, an example whose own life was a patchwork of chores and frustrations."