I like to ask what I call The Front Door Question. It goes like this, "If [author] were a house, which of his/her works would be the front door?" I was happy, therefore, when Stanley Hauerwas said in his memoir that he thought nearly everything he had ever said was in this little book (151 pages).  The Peaceable Kingdom s perhaps his most concentrated treatment of Christian ethics, and Hauerwas' "front door." He insists upon the necessity of narrative, virtue, non-violence, and communities which carry these. Only by being inducted into the community of the church can we learn to serve the God we get to know through Israel and in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. I highly recommend this work to anyone interested in ethics. But, as a Hauerwas fan, I would wouldn't I?