victim of job loss due to corporate takeover, and that five-year-old Libby shows all the signs of being physically abused. The awareness of individual hearers and their real-life situations prevents the preacher from (mis)using the pulpit as a platform from which to voice abstract answers to abstract theological questions posed by an abstract (and faceless) humanity. The amorphous bones of universal humanity take on flesh and blood, personality and character, as the preacher grapples with issues