Volume 13, Issue 6
Pentecost: Propers 14-21
August 13- October 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

Pentecost Season

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August 13, 2006- 2 Samuel 18:5-9, 31-33
Proper 14

• Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
• Andrew Wingfield, Hear Him Roar: A Novel
• Walter Brueggemann, First and Second Samuel

August 20, 2006- 1 Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-4
Proper 15

• Frederick Buechner, Peculiar Treasures: A Biblical Who's Who
• W. H. Auden, Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden
• Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
• Walter Brueggemann, In Man We Trust

August 27, 2006- Joshua 24:1-2a, 14-18
Proper 16

• Julia Ward Howe, "Mother's Day Proclamation"
• Stephen Dunn, New and Selected Poems
• James Martin, My Life with the Saints
• Jerome F. D. Creach, Joshua

September 3, 2006- Thomas 70, 77 Proper 17

• Michael Connelly, Lost Light
• Carl Sandburg, The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
• Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
• Hayden Carruth, Toward the Distant Islands: New & Selected Poems
• Richard Valantasis, The Gospel of Thomas

September 10, 2006- Mark 7:24-37 Proper 18

• Melody Moezzi, "Coming Clean" in Parabola
• Joy Mead, The Telling Place: Reflections on Stories of Women in the Bible
• Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
• Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
• Elizabeth Struthers Malbon, Hearing Mark: A Listener's Guide

September 17, 2006- Isaiah 50:4-9a Proper 19

• Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems of Rainier Maria Rilke
• Charles Cummings, The Mystery of the Ordinary

September 24, 2006- Mark 9:30-37 Proper 20

• Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
• C. G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
• Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
• John Dominic Crossan, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Peasant

October 1, 2006- Mark 9:38-50 Proper 21

• Brian Lanker, I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America
• William Stafford, The Way It is: New and Selected Poems
• Coleman Barks, Gourd Seed
• Herman C. Waetjen, A Reordering of Power: A Socio-Political Reading of Mark's Gospel

III. SERMON SAMPLER

• Ted Gleason

IV. GLEANINGS

• Neely Tucker
• Peter Slevin
• Tom Ehrich

V. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

VI. OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS