At last! / God's invisible hand / Hopeology of Barack Obama: biblical reflections and personal musings / Barack Obama and the unfinished business of America / Dreaming like a fool / On the border of the impossible / This inauguration: an impossible possibility / Giant step forward for America / No longer a dream deferred: Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, and the search for the beloved community / When the walls came tumbling down / Almost but not quite / Working from the bottom up / Of dreams and their dreamers: a sermonic reflection on the significance of the Obama presidency / Lifting of the burden / Dreams from our fathers / Can we believe in America? / No days off / Preacher-prophet Obama / Hope that does not disappoint: an Obama presidency and Romans 5:5 / Hope has its reasons / Hope that the present has brought us / Barack Obama and the American civil religion / Obama's race and America's race relations / Postrace America / Bodies: American made: the 2008 presidential election and the possibility of a new politics of race / This is our work / Barack Obama and the new American civil religion: official version / Hope in 3-D / Sentence begun / What mean these stones? The election of Barack Obama in retrospect and prospect / Obama presidency and America's unfinished business / Where do we go from here? / For such a time as this