Volume 14, Issue 2
Epiphany 1-Epiphany 7
January 7- February 18, 2007

[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

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January 7, 2007 Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 Epiphany 1

• William Blake, "Introduction" from Songs of Innocence and Experience
• Diane Ackerman, Cultivating Delight
• Seamus Heaney, "From the Canon of Expectation" Selected Poems 1966-1987
• Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream" Martin Luther King: The Peaceful Warrior
• John Dominic Crossan, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography

January 14, 2007 John 2:1-11 Epiphany 2

• Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
• John M. Barry, The Great Influenza
• Maxine Kumin, "After Love" Selected Poems 1960-1990
• Elizabeth A. Johnson, Truly Our Sister: A Theology of Mary in the Communion of Saints

January 21, 2007 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a
Epiphany 3

• Wislawa Szymborska, "ABC" Monologue of a Dog: New Poems
• Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
• Barbara Brown Taylor, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
• John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan L. Reed, In Search of Paul

January 28, 2007 Jeremiah 1:4-10 Epiphany 4

• Thornton Wilder, Our Town
• Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace
• Tommy Tomlinson, "To Blow the Whistle, First Take a Stand"
• Robert Coles, The Spiritual Life of Children
• Robert R. Laha, Jr., Jeremiah

February 4, 2007 Luke 5:1-11 Epiphany 5

• Linda Pastan, "After an Absence" The Imperfect Paradise
• Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
• Barbara Brown Taylor, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
• Edward S. Gleason, "A Sermon"
• Sharon H. Ringe, Luke

February 11, 2007 Luke 6:17-26 Epiphany 6

• Martha Mary, "House of Miracles" Houston Catholic Worker (online)
• Mark and Louise Zwick, "A Hug for Mark, Big G Plumbing and Dr. Pat" Houston Catholic Worker (online)
• Paul Bussan, "Who Was that Man?" A Rage of Intelligence
• Bruce Malina and Richard Rohrbaugh, Social-Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels

February 18, 2007 Genesis 45:3-11, 15 Epiphany 7

• Rod Padgett, "Hug" You Never Know
• Caren Goldman, Healing Words for the Body, Mind and Spirit: 101 Words to Inspire and Affirm
• Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom
• Rabbi Nilton Bonder, Yiddishe Kop
• Robert Alter, The Five Books of Moses
• John J. Collins, Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

III. SERMON SAMPLER

• Walter Brueggemann, Inscribing the Text: Sermons and Prayers of Walter Brueggemann

IV. GLEANINGS

• Gospel of Thomas 39-42
  • David Whyte, "Imagine My Surprise" Fire in the Earth: Poems by David Whyte
  • T.S. Eliot, "Burnt Norton" Four Quartets
  • Marvin Meyer, Secret Gospels: Essays on Thomas and the Secret Gospel of Mark
  • Kenneth Arnold, "The Circle of the Way: Reading the Gospel of Thomas as a ChristZen Text"

V. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

VI. OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS