Outside the Camp

The campless album. A man who has belonged to no camp his whole believing life -- not Calvinist, not Reformed, not Baptist, not anything, because no fence ever held all of what he believes. Drawn from the 'Campless' and 'Where the Sentence Came From' sections of the book's preface and sung in the register of classic vintage Johnny Cash -- a weathered voice, a guitar, and the truth with no place to hide. Seventeen songs in four movements: the camps that cast him out, the cost of belonging nowhere, the turn that finds camplessness was a gift and not only a wound, and the landing at Hebrews 13:13 -- outside the camp, with the Christ who was led there first, holding out for a better country.

Shape: 1 the campless thesis; 2 the elder's office, the first door shut; 3 the made-sin slander that outlived the dead; 4 the pulpit that named the article and never called; 5 the forum years, the sharpest sword owned; 6 the cord dragged through the house and ever since; 7 the grief of theological homelessness; 8 the distinction held, not lonely, only campless; 9 the other table, the few who came outside; 10 the contradictory names worn down to a grin; 11 honest does not stop at the fence; 12 the truth given to the man still on the road; 13 the shut door seen at last as the door of a cage; 14 the whole theology built one doctrine at a time; 15 the campless ground revealed as holy ground; 16 the reproach turning out to be His; 17 the pilgrim road, and the better country at the end of it.