reissued as The Importance of Being Foolish) and The Signature of Jesus. I’ll repeat that story here, one more time, because I must out of gratitude for the ways his life touched mine and so many others. As this story honors my good friend, it also reveals the inconsistent nature of my life. You see me here one moment about to commit spiritual hara-kiri and the next moment acting like someone who could care less about the ways of God. When I wrote once about “the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose