Some of these letters are collections, but others are hit singles.  The singles are roughly grouped according to topic -- college, decisions, crises, friendship, courtship, sex, marriage, obsessions, parents and children, various controversies, and God.  They also include two kinds of questions that might  be called “How can I talk with --?” and “Is anything wrong with --?”

Though I'm Catholic, most of these were composed when I was still Protestant.  If I were writing them now, they woud be a little different, but I've resisted the temptation to go back and change everything I've thought about further.