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| Whose Voice Is That? The Vocation of the Minister and Southern Fiction | |
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| Riding the Word: The Minister as Preacher | |
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| Giving Them Transcendence: Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth | |
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| Too Good a Community to Be Tore Apart by Arguin': Terry Kay, The Year the Lights Came On | |
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| Lower than a Snake's Belly: Michael Morris, A Place Called Wiregrass | |
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| You Didn't Even Count Before: The Minister as Evangelist | |
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| Baptizing Your Pain in the River of Life: Flannery O'Connor, "The River" | |
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| Behold, the Zombie of the Empty: Barry Hannah, Yonder Stands Your Orphan | |
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| Pour Out Your Hearts: The Minister as Pastor | |
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| I'm Strongly in Favor of Prayer, but ... : William Hoffman, "The Question of Rain" | |
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| We Use Only First Names in Our Place of Worship: Anne Tyler, Saint Maybe | |
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| Lift Up Your Hearts: The Minister as Priest | |
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| I Could Not Have Told Anyone Else: Walker Percy, Lancelot | |
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| The Grace of Daily Obligations: Gail Godwin, Evensong | |
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| Lying and Conniving and Claiming It as Heaven-Sent: The Minister as Con Man, Seducer, and Thief | |
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| God Don't Eat Okra: Zora Neale Hurston, Jonah's Gourd Vine | |
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| Lying, Cheating, and Stealing to Arrive at the Ultimate Good: Martin Clark, Plain Heathen Mischief | |
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| A Good Church Slogan Is Hard to Come By: The Minister as Church Politician, Institutional Salesman, and Company Manager | |
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| God Wants It Done Now: Will Campbell, The Convention | |
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| He's on His Way Up: Cassandra King, The Sunday Wife | |
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| Burning Coals upon Their Lips: The Minister as Prophet | |
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| Changed Just about Everything Round Here: Ernest Gaines, In My Father's House | |
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| Relieving the Suffering of Old Folks at Homes: Clyde Edgerton, Lunch at the Piccadilly | |
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| Signs Will Follow Them That Believe: The Minister as Misfit and Mystic | |
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| If You've Been Redeemed, I Wouldn't Want to Be: Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood | |
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| Taking Up Serpents: Lee Smith, Saving Grace | |
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| Out in the Open: The Minister as Community Person | |
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| Nothing out of the Ordinary: Richard Bausch, "Design" | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Permissions | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |