“This is a tour de force. We all take part in the drama of living, and Ford’s wisdom shapes our engagement with its depths and fullness. This extraordinary book draws on the riches of his own experience, contemporary poetry, and the mysterious Gospel of John. It both explores the complexities of daily life and inspires wise and creative responses.”

- Micheal O’Siadhail, award-winning poet,

“David Ford draws theology into dailyness, discarding the modern division of ‘head’ from ‘heart’. This memoir unselfconsciously blends personal experience, poetry, fiction, drama, jazz, Scripture, along with the suffering of the disabled, those of the Shoah, and the dying, inviting us to read our own interiority through the great minds and tragic moments that have nourished us on the paths we have trod.”

- Ellen Charry, Princeton Theological Seminary,

“David Ford here combines a treatise in individual and social anthropology with a reading of the fourth Gospel in order to assist us in the ‘search for wisdom in the drama of living.’ Altogether this is a book that may properly engage the attention of theological and humanistic readers alike.”

- Geoffrey Wainwright, Duke University,