Chaplines: A Minister's Life in Parables is both an autobiography and a collection of parables. The parables are mostly actual events with implications, which are not always spelled out--some are obvious, some left to the reader to puzzle out, and some expanded as meditations. This minister's life had its share of excitement, danger, wonder, and controversy, every kind of pathos and challenge, as well as a variety of rewards. We all learn from mistakes as well as successes, whether ours or, in this case, a minister's.