Volume 17, Issue 3
Lent 1- Easter Sunday
February 21 - April 4, 2010
[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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Lent

February 21, 2010 Deuteronomy 26:1-11
Lent 1
Contributor: William L. Dols

• John Shelby Spong, Eternal Life: A New Vision
• William Stafford, The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems
• Harvey Cox, The Future of Faith
• Sandra Marie Schneiders, With Oil in Their Lamps: Faith Feminism, and the Future
• Robert Alter. The Five Books of Moses
• Patrick D. Miller, Deuteronomy

February 28, 2010 Luke 13:31-35
Lent 2
Contributor: D. Andrew Kille

• Martin Luther King, Jr., from "I've Been to the Mountaintop"
• Richard T. Hughes, Myths America Lives By
• Richard W. Swanson, Provoking the Gospel of Luke: A Storyteller's Commentary

March 7, 2010 Luke 13:1-9
Lent 3
Contributor: William L. Dols

• Mary Travers, "In These Times" (music album)
• Woody Guthrie, "Union Medley"
• Nancy Rappaport, In Her Wake
• Tom Wicker, A Time to Die
• Sallie McFague, Speaking in Parables

March 14, 2010 Luke 15:1-3; 11-32
Lent 4
Contributor: Bill Lindeman

• Stephen Mitchell (trans.), Tao Te Ching: A New English Version
• Frederick Buechner, Listening to Your Life
• David M. Bailey, "The Lost River"
• The Sun Magazine
• Stephen J. Patterson, The God of Jesus: The Historical Jesus and the Search for Meaning

March 21, 2010 John 12:1-8
Lent 5
Contributor: D. Andrew Kille

• W. H. Auden, Collected Poems
• Barbara Kingsolver, "The Color Red," AARP Magazine
• Frances Taylor Gench, Encounters with Jesus

March 28, 2010 Luke 23:1-49
Passion Sunday
Contributor: William L. Dols

• Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
• Wendell Berry, Collected Poems 1957-1982
• Jennifer R. Strawbridge, "Be Like the Fox"
• Jeanne Lohmann, Calls from a Lighted House
• John Shelby Spong, Eternal Life: A New Vision

April 4, 2010 Luke 24:1-12
Easter Sunday
Contributor: Kathie Collins

• Blind Lemon Jefferson, "See That My Grave is Kept Clean"
• Deborah Digges, Trapeze
• Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
• Jane Schaberg, The Women's Bible Commentary

III. SHOPTALK

• Bill Lindeman

IV. GLEANINGS

• Michelle Krejci
• D. Andrew Kille

V. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

VI. OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS