Volume 14, Issue 6
Pentecost: Proper 13- Proper 21
August 5- September 30, 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

August 5, 2007 Luke 12:13-21 Proper 13

• Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
• Nancy Pope, "Greed: An Interview with John Beebe and Bernard Lietaer"
• Gail Frazer, The Maiden's Tale
• James Hillman, "A Contribution to Soul and Money," Soul and Money
• George Benson, The Silent Self, A Journal of Spiritual Discovery
• Richard Longenecker, The Challenge of Jesus' Parables
• Marcus Borg, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time

August 12, 2007 Genesis 15:1-6 Proper 14

• Elizabeth Edwards, Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers
• Tony Hoagland, "A Color of the Sky," from What Narcissism Means to Me
• Walter Brueggemann, Genesis (Interpretation Series)

August 19, 2007 Luke 12:49-56 Proper 15

• James Hollis, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up
• Bud Harris, Sacred Selfishness: A Guide to Living a Life of Substance
• Krista Tippett, "Listening Generously: The Medicine of Rachel Naomi Remen," Speaking of Faith
• Marcus Borg, Jesus: Uncovering the LIfe, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary

August 26, 2007 Hebrews 12:18-29 Proper 16

• Leroy Seivers, "The Things We Knew We Should Be Doing All Along," on Morning Edition
• Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle: A Memoir
• David Ray, "Poe's Anvil," Music of Time: Selected and New Poems
• Marcus Borg, Jesus: Uncovering the LIfe, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary

September 2, 2007 Psalm 112 Proper 17

• Lance Armstrong, It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
• Stanley Kunitz, "Benediction," The Collected Poems
• James Limburg, Psalms

September 3, 2007 Deuteronomy 30:15-20
Proper 18

• "Prisoner Sues God," Ananova News Service
• Arthur Green and Barry W. Holtz, Your Word is Fire: The Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayer
• Dwight A. Moody, On the Other Side of Oddville
• Martin Luther King, Jr., "Address to First Montgomery Improvement Association," A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr.
• Thomas W. Mann, Deuteronomy
• Jeffrey H. Tigay, The JPS Torah Commentary: Deuteronomy

September 16, 2007 Luke 15:1-10 Proper 19

• Elizabeth Boyden Howes, Jesus' Answer to God
• Pema Chödrön, Comfortable with Uncertainty
• Robert W. Funk, Roy W. Hoover, and The Jesus Seminar, The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus
• John Dominic Crossan, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography

September 23, 2007 Luke 16:1-13 Proper 20

• Jim Burklo, "Deep Respect," Center for Progressive Christianity Weblog
• Stephen Dunn, "Beyond Hammonton," New and Selected Poems 1974-1994
• Jennifer Michael Hecht, The Next Ancient World
• William R. Herzog II, Parables as Subversive Speech
• Bernard Brandon Scott, Hear Then the Parable

September 30, 2007 Amos 6:1-7 Proper 21

• Edward R. Murrow, "Keynote Speech at the Radio Television News Directors Association Convention" RTNDA website
• John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
• Wendell Berry, "The Mad Farmer's Manifesto: The First Amendment," Collected Poems by Wendel Berry
• Matthew Fox, Original Blessing
• Anthony Hecht, "Despair," Collected Later Poems

III. SERMON SAMPLER

• Katharine Jefferts Schori
• H. Stephen Shoemaker

IV. GLEANINGS

• Robert Miller
• Bernard Brandon Scott
• John Dominic Crossan

V. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

VI. OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS