The Exile Book of Priests, Pastors, Nuns and Pentecostals Stories of Preachers and Preaching

The Word of the Lord is alive and consoling, alive and riotous, righteous and retributive, playful and provocative throughout the land. Sometimes it is the priest who is the confessional ear to the Lord, sometimes the Lord is hollering in the ear of the baffled believer, sometimes He appears naked in His agonies, sometimes He stands in the agony of His nakedness. However He appears, He appears again and again in the lives of priests, nuns and Pentecostals in these great stories of a kind never collected before - stories by Jacques Ferron, Morley Callaghan, Hugh Hood, Gloria Sawai, Mavis Gallant, Leon Rooke, Barry Callaghan, S_an Virgo, Kenneth J. Harvey, Claire D_, Marie-Claire Blais, Hugh Garner, and more.

Joe Fiorito is a city columnist for the Toronto Star. He is the author of five books, including the bestselling memoir The Closer We Are to Dying. He is the recipient of the City of Toronto Book Award for The Song Beneath The Ice. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.