Volume 13, Issue 2
Epiphany 1- Epiphany 8
January 8- February 26 , 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

January 8, 2006- Mark 1:4-11- Epiphany I

• Wendell Berry, "A Long Choosing"
• Kim Stafford, "Caesar is With You"
• William Edgar Stafford, "A Course in Creative Writing"
• Herman C. Waetjen, A Reordering of Social Power: A Socio-Political Reading of Mark's Gospel

January 15, 2006- 1 Samuel 3:1-10, (11-20)-
Epiphany 2

• Eva Etzioni-Halevy, The Song of Hannah: A Novel
• Julia Kraus, "If I Told You, Would You Want to Hear?"
• John J. Collins, Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

January 22, 2006 Mark 1:14-20- Epiphany 3

• Robert Frost, "The Sound of Trees"
• Antonio Machado, Antonio Machado: Selected Poems
• Debra Spencer, "At the Arraignment"
• Kim Stafford, "Early Morning"
• Ched Myers, Binding the Strong Man

January 29, 2006- Mark 1:21-28- Epiphany 4

• Seamus Heaney, "The Diviners"
• The Washington Post, "Elie Wiesel: A Debt to Memory"
• Walter Wink, Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination

February 5, 2006- Isaiah 40:21-31- Epiphany 5

• Peter St. Onge, "When the Trumpet Soundeth Long"
• Christopher Phillips, Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy
• Frederick Buechner, The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction
• Marcus J. Borg, Reading the Bible Again for the First Time

February 12, 2006- 2 Kings 5:1-14- Epiphany 6

• Wendell Berry, Remembering
• Robert Frost, "The Star-Splitter"
• Walter Brueggemann, 1&2 Kings: A Commentary

February 19, 2006- Mark 2:1-12- Epiphany 7

• Wendell Berry, Remembering
• Stephen Dunn, "Desire"
• Walter Wink, The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man

February 26, 2006- Gospel of Thomas 13-
Epiphany 8

• Kim Stafford, "Smoke's Way"
• William Edgar Stafford, "Smoke"
• Sam Walter Foss, "The Calf-Path"
• Carlyle Marney, Priests to Each Other
• Richard Valantasis, The Gospel of Thomas

III. SERMON SAMPLER

• John C. Danforth
• Samuel T. Lloyd, III

IV. GLEANINGS

• Charles Krauthammer
• Sally Jenkins
• Robert W. Funk

V. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

VI. OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS