Volume 13, Issue 7
Pentecost: Propers 22-29
October 8- November 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

Pentecost Season

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October 8, 2006- Genesis 2:18-24 Proper 22

• Calvin Trillin, "Alice, Off the Page" from The New Yorker, March 27, 2006
• Robert Frost, "Revelation"
• Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, Genesis: The Beginning of Desire

October 15, 2006- Mark 10:17-31 Proper 23

• Dante Alighieri, The Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Cantica I: Hell
• Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"
• Herb Gardner, A Thousand Clowns
• Lamar Williamson, Jr., Mark (Interpretation)

October 22, 2006- Mark 10:35-45 Proper 24

• Susan Trout, Born to Serve
• Elizabeth Boyden Howes, Jesus' Answer to God
• Marcus J. Borg, Jesus: A New Vision

October 29, 2006- Mark 10:46-52 Proper 25

• Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away
• Alexandra J. McClanahan, "Orchard Flicker," "Prayer"
• Thomas Low Nichols, Forty Years of American Life
• James Rowe Adams, From Literal to Literary
• Ched Myers, Binding the Strong Man

November 5, 2006- Ruth 1:1-18 (19-21) Proper 26

• Marsha Mirkin, The Women Who Danced by the Sea
• Yehuda Amichai, "The City in Which I was Born"
• William Carlos Williams, "The Widow's Lament in Springtime"
• Athayla Brenner, I am... Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories

November 12, 2006- Mark 12:38-44 Proper 27

• Jim Harrison, "Easter Morning"
• Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
• Andrea Hollander Budy, "Nineteen-Thirty-Eight"
• John Dominic Crossan and Marcus J. Borg, The Last Week

November 19, 2006- Mark 13:1-8 Proper 28

• James Reston, Jr., Fragile Innocence
• Stanley Kunitz, "The Layers"
• Adam Bernstein, "Pulitzer-Winning Poet Stanley Kunitz Dies"
• James D. Tabor, The Jesus Dynasty

November 26, 2006- Revelation 1:4b-8 Proper 29

• Joseph Enzweiler, "A Little Tune"
• Blayney Colmore, "Freedom Notes from Zone 10: Martin Luther King, Jr."
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, No Rusty Swords
• Bart D. Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to Early Christian Writings

III. SERMON SAMPLER

• John Bryson Chane

IV. GLEANINGS

• Kathie Collins
• John Shelby Spong
• Caren Goldman
• William L. Dols

V. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

VI. OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS