Where All Hope Lies: Sermons for the Liturgical Year"Where All Hope Lies" presents fifty six select sermons by James Van Tholen, a gifted young pastor who lost his battle with cancer in January 2001 at the age of thirty six. Though Jim's untimely death gives a certain poignancy to this volume, these sermons are far from dark or despairing. Van Tholen's conversational style, thought provoking insights into Scripture, and frequent interaction with such writers as Flannery O'Connor, Frederick Buechner,