Rev. Kate Landis currently serves as chaplain at Swedish Hospital in Edmonds, Washington. She has previously served as minister at Shoreline Unitarian Universalist Church, as a youth advisor, and GA chaplain. She won the Skinner Sermon Award, presented annually to the preacher of the sermon best expressing Unitarian Universalism’s social principles, for her sermon “Resilience and Religious Freedom.” She lives with her husband Jay and ornery mutt Wally in Seattle, where she is frequently the oldest person in the mosh pit.
Introduction
1. The Incomplete Castle
2. The Family Curse
3. Emma and Wilma
4. It’s All Jimmy Carter’s Fault
5. Choose Jesus . . . or Else
6. Sadness the Chimp and the Evil Katieo
7. Mad Dog the Angry Adolescent
8. Technicolor Romance
9. Psych Hospital, Version One
10. Off the Roof
11. Electric Hallelujah
12. Sharon Jumped
13. No Resurrection for Cool Girls
14. Great Jobs I Got Fired From
15. The Patriarchy Always Knocks Twice
16. Good Choices, Bad Reasons
17. Stealing Junk
18. Accidentally Stealing
19. Two Pink Lines
20. Big Sister God
21. Starting Single
22. Once Burned, Twice Shy
23. Fasten Your Theological Seatbelt
24. Like in Washington?
25. The Dalai Lama Says I’m Okay. My Niece Disagrees.
26. Refusing to Be Enemies
27. A Streetcar Named Dignity
28. Good Guys
29. Ferocious Love
30. Heaven Is a Place on Earth
31. Riding Horses to Heaven
32. Spiritual Safety Rails
33. But You’ll Die!
34. Jazz Hands for the Prodigal Son
Benediction