Go Back, You Didn't Say May I

Vietnam. Civil rights. Politics. Campus rebellion. Urban warfare. Therapy. Murder. Sex. Drugs. And a lot of personal intimacy... In this reprint of a diary written thirty years ago (and originally published in 1974), Thomas L. Jackson--priest, mental-health professional, husband, father, businessman, carpenter...and pilgrim--offers his innermost thoughts and outward actions amid both the daily joys and constant chaos of times and places that forever changed Americas view of itself and the world. From Washington to Detroit to New Jersey to Ohio University to Los Angeles to Upstate New York, the days and nights of collision and community add up to an odyssey beyond the expectations of a young priest trying to make some sense out of a self, a society, and a church facing a post-modern world. The authors Afterword leads the reader to the sequel, In Any Given Moment...