Letters from an Oregon Ranch (1905)

Father Graner takes off the kid gloves and delves into the effects and errors of the early aEnlightenment philosophersa as they affect the Christian vision and practice today in a relentless pursuit of the political and religious perceptions that essentially order and disorder our lives. He points firmly to the broad dark shadow of the Cross of the living God (Whom he knows and they generally summarily dismiss) casts in the enlightenment perceptions of religion, politics, and science. His viewpoint centers on the need for the essential spiritual health the Enlightenment thinkers seem to miss. His whimsy Prologue and Epilogue reflect his own journey in faith in a conversation with what he would call the reality of Godliness.