Volume 13, Issue 3
Lent 1- Easter Day
March 5- April 16, 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

March 5, 2006- Genesis 9:8-17- Lent 1

• St. Ignatius of Loyola, "Prayer"
• Martin Warner, "Prayers for Use in Lent"
• Elie Wiesel, The Time of the Uprooted
• Reinhold Niebuhr, The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr
• Jack Miles, "The Drowning of the World"

March 12, 2006- Mark 8:31-38- Lent 2

• Tom Ehrich, "On a Journey: Meditations on God in Daily Life," September 7, 2005
• Perna Chödrön, Comfortable with Uncertainty
• Rebecca Wells, Little Altars Everywhere
• Ched Myers, Binding the Strong May: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus
• Julie Galambush, The Reluctant Parting: How the New Testament's Jewish Writers Created a Christian Book

March 19, 2006- Exodus 20:1-17- Lent 3

• Vaclav Havel, Letters to Olga
• Elie Wiesel, The Time of the Uprooted
• Judith Moore, Never Eat Your Heart Out
• Chris Hedges, Losing Moses on the Freeway; The 10 Commandments in America
• Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, The Particulars of Rapture

March 26, 2006- John 3:14-21- Lent 4

• Javier Melloni, "The Spiritual Exercises and the Spirituality of the East"
• Martin Warner, Known to the Senses
• St. Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena
• Vaclav Havel, Letters to Olga
• Walter Wink, The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of Man

April 2, 2006- Jeremiah 31:31-34- Lent 5

• Sy Safransky, "Sy Safransky's Notebook"
• Tom Ehrich, "On a Journey: Meditations on God in Daily Life," April 14, 2004
• David Whyte, "All the True Vows"
• Rachel Naomi Remen, "Knowing the Heart"
• David Rhymer, "Jeremiah 31:31-34"
• Walter Brueggemann, "The Book of Jeremiah, Portrait of the Prophet"

April 9, 2006 Mark 14:1-15:47- Palm Sunday

• John O'Donohue, "Reflection"
• Richard Wilbur, "Peter"
• Vaclav Havel, Letters to Olga
• William R. Herzog II, Prophet and Teacher: An Introduction to the Historical Jesus

April 16, 2006- Mark 16:1-8- Easter Day

• Vaclav Havel, Letters to Olga
• Lisa Marie Gomez, "After the Rain, A Shower of I Do's"
• Elie Wiesel, The Time of the Uprooted
• Reinhold Niebuhr, The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr
• William R. Herzog II, , Prophet and Teacher: An Introduction to the Historical Jesus

III. SERMON SAMPLER

• Walter Brueggemann

IV. GLEANINGS

• Mary Joan Winn Leith
• David Van Biema
• David Perlmutt
• Bob Thomason

V. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

VI. OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS