"I continue to try and make sense of a blue, autumn day violated by war and the consequences that scarred us." Pastor, professor of church history, husband and father, Dr. Michael Bledsoe provides a collection of the initial sermons he offered in response to 9/11. These are joined in turn by sermons offered over the past decade that speak to war and peace and "the complicity of religion with all that diminishes us." These sermons, and a pastor's reflection on why he chose to preach in the way he did, are not the pablum of Christianity-as-Entertainment but are "rocks thrown at windows." For these sermons brave difficult questions, offer a critique of prevailing cultural and secular ideas and in the end, honor the lives of both congregant and citizen who have sought to make sense of their lives in a context of war.