In Tables in the Wilderness, Preston Yancey, a conservative, Baptist, active-in-his-faith Christian, embarks on a journey that many readers have also taken: the movement from a secure faith into an overturned life. In the process Preston finds that God speaks in the wilderness, in cathedrals, in the Eucharist, in understandings that are bigger than narrow answers about God's will, and even in the silences in between.