The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)

by John Scalzi

It was more difficult to stay engaged with the esoterica of one’s religion when one was helping stock candles for services.

Priests, ministers, rabbis, imams and other religious leaders were on one hand delighted to be useful in a moment of spiritual and existential crisis and on the other hand well aware that this was the theological equivalent of shoppers making a panic run at the market, with their new parishioners grabbing at anything and hoping it would get them through.