Volume 15, Issue 1
Advent I- Epiphany III
December 2, 2007- January 27, 2008

[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 Advent

December 2, 2007 Isaiah 2:1-5 Advent 1        

• Lao-tzu
• William Stafford, The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems
• Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream" Speech
  [video, audo & transcript]
• Marcus J. Borg, Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary             

December 9, 2007 Matthew 3:1-12 Advent 2

• CG. Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
• William Stafford, "A Course in Creative Writing," Ironwood
• Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita In Tehran: A Memoir in Books
• Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart
• Gail Godwin, The Finishing School
• Albert Nolan, Jesus Before Christianity 

December 16, 2007 Matthew 11:2-11 Advent 3

• Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr
• Wallace Shawn, The Fever
• David Ray, Music of Time: Selected and New Poems
• Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, Jesus Against Christianity

December 23, 2007 Matthew 1:18-25 Advent 4

• William Stafford, The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford  
• Clare Morris, Child Of The Longest Night
• Sheila Moon, Collected Poems: 1972-1985
• Elizabeth A. Johnson, Truly Our Sister: A Theology of Mary in the Communion of Saints       

December 30,2007 Matthew 2:13-23 Christmas 1

• Clare Morris, Child Of The Longest Night
• Naomi Shihab Nye, Words Under the Words:  Selected Poems
• Tadeusz Rózewicz, Tadeusz Rózewicz: They Came to See a Poet
• Fritz Kunkel, Creation Continues
• William R. Herzog II, The Bible Workbench

January 6, 2008 Isaiah 60:1-6 Epiphany        

• Sadie M. Gregory, A Meditative Calendar
• Elie Wiesel, Legends of Our Time
• James L. Kugel, The Great Poems of the Bible: A Reader’s Companion with New Translations
• Walter Brueggemann, Bruce C Birch, Terence Fretheim, and David Petersen, A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament
• Walter Brueggemann, Reverberations of Faith: A Theological Handbook of Old Testament Themes

January 13, 2008 Matthew 3:13-1 7 Epiphany 1

• Chip Walter, Thumbs, Toes, and Tears  
• Blayney Colmore, Notes from Zone I      
• Daniel Ladinsky, The Gift: Poems by Hafiz
• William R. Herzog II, Prophet and Teacher: An Introduction to the Historical Jesus       

January 20, 2008 John 1:29-42 Epiphany 2

• Mary Ann Caws, Glorious Eccentrics: Modernist Women Painting and Writing
• Gerry Goffin and Michael Masser, "Do You Know Where You're Going To?" Theme from movie Mahogany [i-Tunes]
• Barbara Brown Taylor, “Something about Jesus,” The Christian Century
• Gerard Sloyan, John

January 27, 2008 Matthew 4:12-23 Epiphany 3

• Albert Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus
• Mary Ann Caws, Glorious Eccentrics: Modernist Women Painting and Writing
• W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
• Marcus J. Borg, Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary
  

III. SERMON SAMPLER

• Connie Jones
• William S. Wade

IV. GLEANINGS

• Mary H. Schertz
• Kim Lawton
• Mary Warner

V. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

VI. OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS