Volume 14, Issue 5
Pentecost: Proper 5- Proper 12
June 10- July 29, 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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Season of Pentecost

June 10, 2007 1 Kings 17:8-24 Proper 5

• David Whyte, The House of Belonging
• Noel Coward, Collected Verse
• Jo McDougall, Towns Facing Railroads
• Walter Brueggemann, 1 & 2 Kings: A Commentary

June 17, 2007 Luke 7:36-8:3 Proper 6

• Kaylin Haught, In the Palm of Your Hand: A Poet's Portable Workshop
• Daniel Homan and Lonni Collins Pratt, Radical Hospitality: Benedict's Way of Love
• Elizabeth B. Howes and Sheila Moon, The Choicemaker
• Sharon H. Ringe, Luke

June 24, 2007 Galatians 323-29 Proper 7

• Edward P. Jones, All Aunt Hagar's Children
• Seamus Heaney, "Nobel Lecture"
• John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan L.. Reed, In Search of Paul: How Jesus' Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom
• Amy-Jill Levine, The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus

July 1, 2007 Luke 9:51-62 Proper 8

• Alden Nowlan, What Happened When He Went to the Store for Bread
• W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
• Marcus J. Borg, Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary

July 8, 2007 Isaiah 66:[6-9] 10-14 Proper 9

• Abigail Thomas, A Three Dog Life; Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
• Miller Williams, Living on the Surface: New and Selected Poems
• J.W. Johnson and J. R. Johnson, The Books of American Negro Spirituals
• Abigail Thomas, Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
• Paul D. Hanson, Isaiah 40-66 (Interpretation)

July 15, 2007 Deuteronomy 30:9-14 Proper 10

• Abigail Thomas, A Three Dog Life
• Jim Harrison, Saving Daylight
• William L. Dols, Just Because It Didn't Happen: Sermons and Prayers as Story
• Amy-Jill Levine, The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus

July 22, 2007 Luke 10:38-42 Proper 11

• Paul Willis, "Who's who," The Christian Century
• Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu
• Elizabeth J. Canham, "Grandmother Wisdom," Weavings: A Journal of the Christian Spiritual Life
• Evelyn and Frank Stagg, Woman in the World of Jesus
• N. T. Wright, Luke for Everyone

July 29, 2007 Luke 11:1-13 Proper 12

• Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC
• Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the Revolutionary Nature of Jesus' Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted

Ill. SERMON SAMPLER

• William L. Dols

IV. GLEANINGS

• Bob Abernethy, "World Renowned Preacher, Seeking Meaning, Leaves Her Church to Teach," Religion and Ethics News Weekly (PBS)
• Dan Murphy, "Islam's Sunni-Shiite Split," Christian Science Monitor

V. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

VI. OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS