Volume 13, Issue 1
Advent 1- Christmas 1
November 27, 2005- January 1, 2006

[previous issues]

I. BENCHMARKS

• A Letter from the Editor

II. AT THE WORKBENCH
Exploring the Pattern: Themes and Motifs with Parallel Readings and Critical Background

November 27, 2005- Mark 13:24-37- Advent 1

• Eve LaPlante, American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
• Susan Levine, "A Spirit the Waves Couldn't Break"
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison
• Ann Weems, Psalms of Lament
• Stephen J. Patterson, The God of Jesus

December 4, 2005- Mark 1:1-8- Advent 2

• Ernie Pyle, Reporting World War II, Part One: American Journalism 1938-1944
• Robert Frost, "Once By the Pacific"
• William R. Herzog II, Jesus, Justice, and the Reign of God: A Ministry of Liberation

December 11, 2005- Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11- Advent 3

• DeNeen L. Brown, "Invisible Workers, Greeted by Silence"
• Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair
• Doris Kearns Goodwin, "The True Lincoln"
• Walter Brueggemann, Isaiah

December 18, 2005- Luke 1:26-38- Advent 4

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman's Bible
• Mariann Burke, Advent and Psychic Birth
• Malcolm Godwin, Angels: An Endangered Species
• John Shelby Spong, Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Birth of Jesus

December 25, 2005- Luke 2:1-14- Christmas Day

• John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan Reed, In Search of Paul: How Jesus' Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom
• Sheila Moon, "Peace on Earth"
• Tobias Wolff, Back in the World
• Tom Ehrich, "On a Journey: Meditations on God in Daily Life," May 22, 2005
• Richard Horsley and James Tracy, Christmas Unwrapped

January 1, 2006- John 1:1-18- Christmas 1

• Ernie Pyle, Reporting World War II, Part One: American Journalism 1938-1944
• Eve LaPlante, American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
• Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair
• Sheila Moon, "Christmas Questions"
• John Sanford, Mystical Christianity: a Psychological Commentary on the Gospel of John

III. SERMON SAMPLER

• Nancy Lippincott

IV. GLEANINGS

• Thomas Long
• Peter Gomes
• Tom Ehrich
• James Tracy
• Susan Kinzie

V. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

VI. OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS