Volume 17, Issue 6
Pentecost 9- Penecost 17
July 25, 2010- September 19, 2010
[previous issues]

I. BENCHMARKS

• A Letter from the Editor: Andrew Kille

II. AT THE WORKBENCH

Exploring the Pattern:
Themes and Motifs with Parallel Readings
and Critical Background

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Sundays after Pentecost

July 25, 2010 Luke 11:1-13
Pentecost 9, Proper 12
Contributor: William L. Dols

• D.G. Bly, "Where are You?"
• Anne Tyler, Noah's Compass
• Samuel Wells, Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics
• W.D. Snodgrass, Selected Poems 1957-1987
• Sallie McFague, Speaking in Parables

August 1, 2010 Luke 12:13-21
Pentecost 10, Proper 13
Contributor: William L. Dols

• Faith Shearin, The Owl Question
• Anne Porter, Living Things: Collected Poems
• John D. Caputo, What Would Jesus Deconstruct?
• Stephen J. Patterson and James M. Robinson (Eds.), The Fifth Gospel
• Bernard Brandon Scott, Hear Then the Parable

August 8, 2010 Isaiah 1:1, 10-20
Pentecost 11, Proper 14
Contributor: D. Andrew Kille

• Ben McGrath. "The Movement: The Rise of Tea Party Activism" New Yorker
• Joan Chittister, Called to Question
• Norman K. Gottwald, The Hebrew Bible: A Socio-Literary Introduction

August 15, 2010 Luke 12:49-56
Pentecost 12, Proper 15
Contributor: William L. Dols

• Louis Menand, "Head Case," New Yorker
• Nicholas D. Kristoff, "On Isaiah Berlin: Explorer," New York Review of Books
• Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
• James Hollis, What Matters Most
• Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case
• John Dominic Crossan, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography

August 22, 2010 Jeremiah 1:1-10
Pentecost 13, Proper 16
Contributor: Caren Goldman

• Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
• Joseph Campbell, Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth
• George Orwell, 1984
• William Stafford, Even in Quiet Places
• Caren Goldman and Ted Voorhees, Across the Threshold and Into the Questions
• Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler (Eds.), The Jewish Study Bible
• Christopher Vogler, "A Practical Guide to Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces"

August 29, 2010 Luke 14:1, 7-14
Pentecost 14, Proper 17
Contributor: Caroline Wohlforth

• Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
• Anne Lamott, All New People
• Leonard Pitts, "Beck's Bible ignores those in need," Miami Herald
• James Rowe Adams, From Literal to Literary
• Joseph Fitzmeyer, The Gospel According to Luke X-XXXIV

September 5, 2010 Luke 14:25-33
Pentecost 15, Proper 18
Contributor: William L. Dols

• Francine Prose, "A Knife at the Door," New York Review of Books
• Martin Hengel, Crucifixion in the Ancient World adn the Folly of the Message of the Cross
• Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, C. G. Jung Letters
• Stephen J. Patterson and James M. Robinson (Eds.), The Fifth Gospel
• Harvey Cox, The Future of Faith

September 12, 2010 Luke 15:1-10
Pentecost 16, Proper 19
Contributor: Cathy Hasty

• Kris Allen, "Live Like We're Dying"
• Cheryl Collins Patterson, "Reflection"
• Elsa Tamez, Jesus and Courageous Women

September 19, 2010 Luke 16:1-13
Pentecost 17, Proper 20
Contributor: D. Andrew Kille

• Frank Schaeffer, Patience with God
• Frank Darabont, "The Shawshank Redemption"
• Douglas E. Oakman, from The Social World of Luke-Acts

III. FROM THE BOOKSHELF

• Huston Smith, Tales of Wonder

IV. GLEANINGS

• ScienceDaily
• Jerome Neyrey, The Social World of Luke-Acts

V. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

VI. OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS