A dog makes devotion look as if it is the best part of life. And why shouldn’t it be? Author and musician David Teems examines the possibilities. Using dogs as a common and playful metaphor, this book examines worship, not as an isolated event, but as a vision of life, and by a love that saturates the whole of life, to the smallest particulars.

Balanced between the playful and the poignant, AND THEREBY HANGS A TALE instructs and encourages, even as it entertains, and uses our canine hosts to do both.

Worship is meant to be a way of life, a continuous day-by-day, moment-by-moment event that engages the divine among the ordinary—a life of pure possibility, life as it should be, as it was designed to be.



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"I remember preaching once to Savannah. She loved the sound of my voice, the rise and fall of emotion, the dynamic shifts, the lyrical spew, but in the end all I got was a long groan and a side to side shift of her body just before she dozed off to sleep." p. 71

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