Volume 16, Issue 5
Proper 6- Proper 13
June 14, 2009-
August 2, 2009

[previous issues]

I. BENCHMARKS

• A Letter from the Editor: Andrew Kille

II. AT THE WORKBENCH

Exploring the Pattern:
Themes and Motifs with Parallel Readings
and Critical Background

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Sundays after Pentecost

June 14, 2009 Mark 4:26-34
Proper 6
Contributor: Edwin Voorhees

• David Whyte, Where Many Rivers Meet
• Gwen Ifill, The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
• Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons
• William R. Herzog II, Parables as Subversive Speech: Jesus as Pedagogue of the Oppressed
• William Brosend, Conversation with Scriptures: The Parables 

June 21,2009 Mark 4:35-41
Proper 7
Contributor: William L Dols

• John P. Shanley, Doubt, A Parable
• James Reston Jr., The Conviction of Richard Nixon
• Caren Goldman and Ted Voorhees, Across the Threshold, Into the Questions 
• Meet the Press
• Herman C. Waetjen, A Reordering of Power

June 25, 2009 Mark 5:21·43
Proper 8
Contributor: Terry Dowdy

• Mary Joe Hannaford, The Joy of Sorrow
• Ted Loder, Guerrillas of Grace
• Richard W. Swanson, Provoking the Gospel of Mark: A Storyteller's Commentary

July 5,2009 Ezekiel 2:1-5
Proper 9
Contributor: William L Dols

• William Lloyd Garrison, from Stephen Oates, The Approching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861
• Franz Wright, The New Yorker Magazine
• Caren Goldman and Ted Voorhees, Across the Threshold, Into the Questions 
• James L Kugel, How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture

July 12, 2009 Mark 6:14-29
Proper 10
Contributor: D. Andrew Kille

• Jon Meacham, American Lion
• Robert L Frank, Richistan: A Journey through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich
• Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe, The Women's Bible Commentary
• Diarmuid McGann, The Journeying Self

July 19, 2009 2 Samuel 7:1-14a
Proper 11
Contributor: D. Andrew Kille

• Gore Vidal, Julian
• Robert L Frank, Richistan: A Journey through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich
• Bruce C. Birch, from New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible
• J. Maxwell Miller and John H. Hayes, A History of Ancient Israel and Judah

July 26, 2009 John 6:1-21
Proper 12
Contributors: Caroline Wohlforth, Jean Ryan, and Patricia Koch

• Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
• Frederick Buechner, Love Feast
• Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
• Bruce J. Malina and Richard L. Rohrbaugh, Social Science Commentary on the Gospel of John
• Marcus Borg, Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary

August 2, 2009 John 6:24-35
Proper 13
Contributor: Bill Lindeman

• Paul Simon, There Goes Rhymin' Simon
• Speaking of Faith
• Michael Willett Newheart, Word and Soul 

III. SERMON SAMPLER

• William L. Dols

IV. GLEANINGS

• Karen Armstrong

V. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

VI. OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS