Volume 13, Issue 5
Pentecost: Propers 6-13
June 18- August 6, 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

Pentecost Season

June 18, 2006- Mark 4:26-34 -Proper 6

• Sheri Hostetler, "Instructions"
• Robert A. Raines, The Ridgeleaf
• Lamar Williamson, Mark (Interpretation Series)
• Bernard Brandon Scott, Hear Then the Parable
• James Rowe Adams, From Literal to Literary

June 25, 2006- Mark 4:35-41- Proper 7

• Clare Morris, "My City, My Self"
• D. Stephenson Bond, Living Myth: Personal Meaning as a Way of Life
• Ched Myers, Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus

July 2, 2006- Mark 5:21-43- Proper 8

• Joan Didion, Slouching Toward Bethlehem
• Julie Tullis, Clouds from Both Sides
• Jane Langton, The Shortest Day: Murder at the Revels
• Ched Myers, Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus

July 9, 2006- Ezekiel 2:1-5- Proper 9

• Clare Morris, In Transit, Love Poems to the City
• Glenn Tinder, "Liberals and Revolution"
• Paul Hanneman, "Compass Readings"
• Walter Brueggemann, Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy
• Joseph Blenkinsopp, Ezekiel (Interpretation Series)

July 16, 2006- Amos 7:(1-6) 7-15 (16-8:6)-
Proper 10

• Albert Camus, "A Speech to French Christians"
• Jennifer Moses, "The Catastrophe is Not Over"
• David Whyte, "The Opening of Eyes"
• Walter Brueggemann, Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy

July 23, 2006- Ephesians 2:(1-10) 11-22- Proper 11

• Robert Frost, "Mending Wall"
• Clare Morris,"She Says Her Name is Sherry"
• Cathy Smith Bowers, "To St. Brendan the Navigator, Protector of Sailors"
• Stephen Dunn, "Long Term"
• Julie Galambush, The Reluctant Parting: How the New Testament's Jewish Writers Created a Christian Book
• Bruce J. Malina and Richard L. Rohrbaugh, Social Science: Commentary of the Synoptic Gospels

July 30, 2006- John 6:1-21- Proper 12

• Alison Hawthorne Deming, "Urban Law"
• Dorothy Day, By Little and By Little: The Selected Writings of Dorothy Day
• John Sanford, Mystical Christianity: A Psychological COmmentary on the Gospel of John

August 6, 2006- Exodus 16:2-4, 9-15- Proper 13

• Ted Loder, "One Difficult Condition"
• C. G. Jung, Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious
• James Hillman, The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire
• Henry David Thoreau, "The Village"
• David Richo, The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them
• B. Davie Napier, The Layman's Bible Commentary
• Augustine Stock, The Way in the Wilderness

III. SERMON SAMPLER

• William L. Dols
• Bono

IV. GLEANINGS

• Timothy K. Beal, Roadside Religion: In Search of the Sacred, the Strange and the Substance of Faith
• "Auburn Honors Walter Wink," Auburn Views
• William E. Swing, "Commencement Address, University of San Francisco, 2005"

V. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

VI. OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS