Best-selling author Thomas Friedman says that globalization has made the world flat and that we cannot stop the process. But while it is right to say that globalization tends to flatten our world, it is wrong to say that there are no alternatives to current patterns of economic, ecological, political, and cultural integration. This book argues that the Christian liturgical calendar provides a constructive alternative to the globalization of economics, ecologies, politics, and cultures. It does so by incorporating the church into the fullness of time in the gospel narrative, thereby helping us escape from the dead end of Friedman's flat world so that we can improvise healthier ways of being globally integrated.

Chaff, a pebble, and a fly on the wall are herein assigned human attributes in considering what they might have thought and said relative to their own experience in the presence of the Christ. A glimpse is thus provided as to the possible relationship of things inanimate and/or of lesser creatures before the Creator. This work includes a classroom setting that addresses the imperfections of the Mosaic Law as opposed to the wonder of grace; a tale of an atheist who challenges God; a boy from dire poverty who desires nothing but to serve God; an old fisherman; and the work concludes with a memorial in the passing of a dear friend, the great grandson of King Kamehameha, the first King and Ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii. The thrust of this work aims to emphasize the joy of God’s salvation - the joy of serving Him.