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Introduction: Higher Ground 3
Chapter 1 Mockingbird Players 19
Chapter 2 Stand 35
Chapter 3 Trials and Tribulation 47
Chapter 4 The Old Rugged Cross 67
Chapter 5 Of the Coming of John 92
Chapter 6 Surely Doomed 115
Chapter 7 Justice Denied 127
Chapter 8 All God's Children 147
Chapter 9 I'm Here 163
Chapter 10 Mitigation 186
Chapter 11 I'll Fly Away 203
Chapter 12 Mother, Mother 227
Chapter 13 Recovery 242
Chapter 14 Cruel and Unusual 256
Chapter 15 Broken 275
Chapter 16 The Stone catchers* Song of Sorrow 295
Epilogue 311
Acknowledgments 315
Author's Note 317
Notes 319