Volume 14, Issue 1
Advent 1- Christmas 1
December 3- 31, 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

Advent/Christmas

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December 3, 2006 Luke 21:25-28, 34-36 Advent 1

• Ed Gordon, "Conversation with MLK Advisor Clarence B. Jones" (National Public Radio)
• Linda Pastan, "What We Want" Carnival Evening
• Josephine Hart, Damage
• Henry Adams, "Wyeth's World"
• Garrison Keillor, The Writer's Almanac [online]
• Fred B. Craddock, Luke

December 10, 2006 Baruch 5:1-9 Advent 2

• James Carroll, House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power
• James Hollis, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
• George W. E. Nickelsburg, Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah

December 17, 2006 Luke 3:7-18 Advent 3

• James A. Autry, "Genealogy"
• Emily Dickinson, "#781"
• David Whyte, "Sometimes" Everything is Waiting for You
• Bruce J. Malina and Richard L. Rohrbaugh, Social Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels
• John Dominic Crossan, The Historical Jesus

December 24, 2006 Luke 1:39-55 (56) Advent 4

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Mystery of Holy Night
• James Carroll, House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power
• Josephine Hart, Damage
• Richard Horsley and James Tracy, Christmas Unwrapped: Consumerism, Christ, and Culture
• Elizabeth A. Johnson, Truly Our Sister: A Theology of Mary in the Communion of Saints

December 31, 2006 1Samuel 2:18-20, 26
Christmas 1

• Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
• Graham Nash, "Teach Your Children"
• Rainier Maria Rilke, "You see, I want a lot." Collected Poems
• Hans Wilhelm Hertzberg, I & II Samuel: A Commentary

III. SERMON SAMPLER

• Frederick Buechner, "The Birth" Secrets in the Dark

IV. GLEANINGS

• William L. Dols, Gospel of Thomas 23-26
  • Azare Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
  • Ian McEwan, Saturday
  • Elaine Pagels, Beyond Belief: The Secred Gospel of Thomas
  • James Carroll, House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power
  • Jay Leeming, "The Light Above Cities" Dynamite on a China Plate
  • Marvin Meyer, The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus: The Definitive Collection of Mystical Gospels and Secret Books about Jesus of Nazareth
  • Richard Valantasis, The Gospel of Thomas
• Libby Copeland, "Faith-Based Initiative: Presidential Hopeful Sam Brownback Strives to Be Humble Enough for a Higher Power" (The Washington Post)

V. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

VI. OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS