Birdhouse is an offer to look at and along the beam as an act of faith; to find hope enough, and life enough, to laugh; and to play pretend, and by that play, to love others in the theater of the glory of God. It is a call to weed out the disenchantment of the world come of age with the unseriousness of a holy buffoonery, and to plant a garden of gospel in its place. Birdhouse is an invitation to join in on the greatest joke ever told: the death of death in the death of Christ.