when we confess him. The preacher went on for quite some time with words that sounded nice but didn’t stick. But then he said something that Buechner never forgot. I’ll let him tell you: And then with his head bobbing up and down so that his glasses tittered, he said in his odd sandy voice, the voice of an old nurse, that the coronation of Jesus took place among confession and tears and, as God is my witness, great laughter, he said. Jesus is crowned among confession and tears and great laughter,