It's again time for my annual pilgrimage to Spike's Lake in northern Minnesota where the water is high and cool. I'll read, splash, write, splash and so on. And I'll jump in the lake as my annual gift to faithful readers who often want to and even do cry out, after reading some review or other, "Oh, go jump in the lake!" And so I have. And I will again.

I very much appreciated the introductory essay, "Times of Yeaming, Practices of Faith," by Craig Dykstra and Dorothy C. Bass ...