In "A Walk through the Churchyard," Episcopal priest Rob Gieselmann explores stories of death, and the beautiful yet painful intimacy associated with these stories, in a way that brings sense to his own wife's, Laura's, premature death that left him as a single father of two young children. The intent of this little book is to demystify death, and to offer a Christian spiritual sense of the event of death. In our society, people do not like to talk about death, but Rob hits death straight-on, refusing to temper its sharp edges or hide from its dark grip.

"I am so grateful when emotionally gifted and highly intelligent people like Rob Gieselmann share their intimate experiences and understanding of death, from a Christian perspective. His work so diminishes one's sense of being alone and lost in this most private of all human realms." - Anne Lamott, author of "Traveling Mercies: Some thoughts on Faith"

"'My suffering has become a spiritual lifeblood. I see in ways I did not see before." So writes Rob Gieselmann as he allows you the reader to join him as he intensely reflects on his life and death experience years after the sudden death of his wife Laura. When you read this little booklet and allow yourself to enter into his very personal and honest and at times, emotionally raw moments of insight, you may with him see "death's victory an illusion."' - The Rt. Rev. Charles L. Longest, D.D., Episcopal Bishop, ret'd, Dioceses of Maryland and Easton

This is the book nobody will like. The Episcopal Church has gone crazy. We've become pigs who roll around in our own mud, and when we've finished rolling here, we roll there. Perhaps we eat a little spiritual food and then wallow back to the mud. We talk about God, mention Jesus like he's our best friend, but we act exactly like he said not to act. We are exactly who he said not to be. In this book the author employs Scripture to demonstrate that both Jesus and Paul would favor unity over division, and that the Holy Eucharist is the ultimate act of Christian unity. This book shows that, in the end, unity facilitated by love in Christ should be our goal, not righteousness. Division may be our destiny, but it is not God's will.