Volume 14, Issue 3
Lent 1- Easter Sunday
February 25- April 8, 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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February 25, 2007 Luke 4:1-13 Lent 1

• Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night
• Philip Roth, American Pastoral
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts with Epilogue
• Sharon H.Ringe, Luke

March 4, 2007 Luke 13:22-35 Lent 2

• Brian Friel, "The Freedom of the City," Brian Friel: Plays One
• Judith Moore, Fat Girl: A True Story
• James Hollis, "Expensive Ghosts: How Did We Get to This Point?" Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
• Ted Kooser, "So This is Nebraska," Flying at Night: Poems 1965-1985
• Anthony J. Saldarini, Pharisees, Scribes, and Sadducees in Palestinian Society

March 11, 2007 Exodus 3:1-15 Lent 3

• David Whyte, Fire in the Earth
• Brian Friel, "Philadelphia, Here I Come!" Brian Friel: Plays One
• Ted Kooser, "In the Basement of the Goodwill Store" Flying at Night: Poems 1965-1985
• Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, The Particulars of Rapture
• Terence E. Fretheim, Exodus
• Michael Walzer, Exodus and Revolution

March 18, 2007 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Lent 4

• Brian Wren, "This is a Day of New Beginnings" United Methodist Hymnal
• Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree
• Harry Emerson Fosdick, "The Essential Elements in a Vital Christian Experience" Riverside Sermons
• Michael A. King, "Arguing with Paul"
• John Buehrens, Understanding the Bible

March 25, 2007 Isaiah 43:16-21 Lent 5

• Rebecca Kuiken, The Presbyterian Outlook
• Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
• Krista Tippet, "Exodus, Cargo of Hidden Stories"
• David Whyte, "Journey" The House of Belonging
• Paul D. Hanson, Isaiah 40-66, Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching

April 1, 2007 Luke 22:14-23:56 Palm Sunday

• Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
• Carl Sandburg, "God is No Gentleman" Honey and Salt
• Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
• Seamus Heaney, "Clearances" Opened Ground
• John Dominic Crossan, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
• Bruce Chilton, "The Eucharist: Exploring Its Origins" Bible Review

April 8, 2007 John 20:1-18 Easter Sunday

• Rumi, The Essential Rumi
• Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
• Henri J. Nouwen, The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey through Anguish to Freedom
• Gail R. O'Day, "Gospel of John" Women's Bible Commentary
• Nan Futrell, "Studies Bring Author to Believe Jesus Was Married"

Ill. SERMON SAMPLER

• H. Stephen Shoemaker, "The Christian Practice of Forgiveness, Hospitality, and Just Love"

IV. GLEANINGS

• Gospel of Thomas 90-95
  • Ted Loder, "Gather Me to Be with You" Guerrillas of Grace
  • Anthony de Mello, SJ, "The Diamond" The Song of the Bird
  • Wendell Berry, "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front" The Country of Marriage
  • Richard Valantasis, The Gospel of Thomas
• Andrew Sullivan, "When Seeing is Not Believing" Time Magazine

V. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

VI. OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS