For Sunday, March 25, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Poetry for Peace in a Time of War: On the Fourth Anniversary of the Iraq War
• Book review: E.O. Wilson, The Creation; An Appeal to Save Life on Earth (2006)
• Film review: Antares (2004, Austria)
• Poem review: Anna Akhmatova, The Crucifixion

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For Sunday, March 18, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Coming All the Way Home: Affirming the “Incidental Face” of Creation (guest essay by Daniel Deffenbaugh).
• Book review: Nora Gallagher, Practicing Resurrection; A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace (2003)
• Film review: Refuge of Last Resort (2006)
• Poem review: The Prayer of St. Patrick

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For Sunday, March 11, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Clarifying Moments of Warning and Invitation
• Book review: Nora Gallagher, Things Seen and Unseen; A Year Lived in Faith (1998)
• Film review:Be With Me (2006, Singapore)
• Poem review: John F. Deane, Mercy

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For Sunday, March 4, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: I Must Keep Going: Lent's Unfinished Business
• Book review: Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Holy Hunger; A Woman's Journey from Food Addiction to Spiritual Fulfillment (1998, 2000)
• Film review: Who's Camus Anyway? (2005, Japanese)
• Poem review: Edwin Muir, The Good Man in Hell

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For Sunday, February 25, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: From Ashes to Fire: First Sunday in Lent 2007 (guest essay by Nora Gallagher)
• Book review: Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Christ's Passion, Our Passions; Reflections on the Seven Last Words from the Cross (2002)
• Film review: The Beauty Academy of Kabul (2004)
• Poem review: Edwin Muir, The Incarnate One

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For Sunday, February 18, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Dial and the Switch: Recognizing the Moments of God's Special Visitation (guest essay by Pam Fickenscher)
• Book review: Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest (1936)
• Film review: Sir! No Sir! (2005)
• Poem review: Edwin Muir, Abraham

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For Sunday, February 11, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: From Either-Or to Both-And (guest essay by Deborah Core)
• Book review: N.T. Wright, Simply Christian; Why Christianity Makes Sense (2006)
• Film review: The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
• Poem review: George Herbert, The Holdfast
• Music review (by Dave Werther): David Wilcox, Vista

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For Sunday, February 4, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: I Am What I Am: Listening to Isaiah, Paul, and Peter
• Book review: Garry Wills, What Paul Meant (2006)
• Film review: Angela (2002, Italian)
• Poem review: George Herbert, The Storm

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For Sunday, January 28, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Call of Jeremiah: Human Struggle with the Divine Summons
• Book review: Marcus Borg, Jesus; Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary (2006)
• Film review: Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
• Poem review: George Herbert, The Sinner

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For Sunday, January 21, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Eat the Fat, Drink the Wine
• Book review: James M. Houston, Joyful Exiles; Life in Christ on the Dangerous Edge of Things(2006)
• Film review: Look Both Ways (2005, Australian)
• Poem review: Denise Levertov, The Avowal

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For Sunday, January 14, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Miracle at Cana: A Whole Lot of Strong Wine
• Book review: Philip Jenkins, The New Faces of Christianity; Believing the Bible in the Global South (2006)
• Film review: 24 Hours on Craigslist (2005)
• Poem review: George Herbert, Colossians 3:3

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For Sunday, January 7, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Baptism of Jesus: A Vision and a Voice
• Book review: Letter to a Godchild (Concerning Faith) (2006)
• Film review: The Party's Over (2001)
• Poem review: Alfred Tennyson, A New Year's Poem

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For Sunday, December 31, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Hidden Years of Jesus: A Spirituality of Invisibility and Obscurity
• Book review: J. Brent Bill, Holy Silence; The Gift of Quaker Spirituality (2006)
• Film review: Down to the Bone (2004)
• Poem review: John Donne, Nativity

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For Sunday, December 24, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Mary's Magnificat: All Generations Will Call Her Blessed
• Book review: Maya Angelou, Mother; A Cradle to Hold Me (2006)
• Film review: Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006)
• Poem review: GK Chesterton, The House of Christmas

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For Sunday, December 17, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Never Again: Zephaniah 3:15 and the Hope of Divine Judgment
• Book review: Lorrie Goldensohn, ed., American War Poetry: An Anthology (2006)
• Film review: Darfur Diaries (2006)
• Poem review: Daniel Berrigan, Advent Credo

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For Sunday, December 10, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: John the Baptist: Divine Wisdom from the Lunatic Fringe
• Book review: Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (2006)
• Film review: Transamerica (2005)
• Poem review: Christina Rossetti, In the Bleak Midwinter

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For Sunday, December 3, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Coming of the Son of Man: Disbelief, Voyeuristic Violence, or Future Redemption?
• Book review: William W. Klein, Become What You Are; Spiritual Formation According to the Sermon on the Mount (2006)
• Film review: Kinky Boots (2006)
• Poem review: Christopher Harvey, The Nativity

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For Sunday, November 26, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Clash of Two Kingdoms: Pilate the Prefect and Christ the King
• Book review: Christopher Tyerman, God's War; A New History of the Crusades (2006)
• Film review: Art School Confidential (2006)
• Poem review: Denise Levertov, On the Mystery of the Incarnation

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For Sunday, November 19, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Be On Your Guard, Don't Be Duped, Deceived, or Distracted: 10 Warning Signs
• Book review: Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)
• Film review: Prairie Home Companion (2006)
• Poem review: Edwina Gateley, Let Your God Love You

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For Sunday, November 12, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Political Illusions and Biblical Realities: Ten Reminders for Election Day
• Book review: Sam Harris, The End of Faith; Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (2005)
• Film review: Jesus Camp (2006)
• Poem review: Daniel Berrigan, Credo.

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For Sunday, November 5, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Amo Ergo Sum: I Love, therefore I Am
• Book review: W. David Buschart, Exploring Protestant Traditions; An Invitation to Theological Hospitality (2006)
• Film review: Middle of the World (2003)
• Poem review: George MacDonald, A Prayer for the Past

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For Sunday, October 29, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Ruined without Reason: Epilogue to a Health-Wealth Fiasco
• Book review: Will D. Campbell, Forty Acres and a Goat: A Memoir (2002)
• Film review: On the Outs (2004)
• Poem review: Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, After St. Augustine

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For Sunday, October 22, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Greatness and Glory: the Jesus Way
• Book review: Will D. Campbell, Brother to a Dragonfly (2006)
• Film review: Tsotsi (South African; 2005)
• Poem review: Soren Kierkegaard, A Prayer

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For Sunday, October 15, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Our Dappled World: Grace to Help in Our Time of Need or The Ultimate of All Miseries?
• Book review: Owen Gingerich, God's Universe (2006)
• Film review: Water (Indian; 2005)
• Poem review: Christopher Harvey, from The School of the Heart

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For Sunday, October 8, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: We Get to Be Human
• Book review: Jennifer L. Holberg, ed., Shouts and Whispers; Twenty-One Writers Speak About Their Writing and Their Faith (2006)
• Film review: For The Children (2002)
• Poem review: Ambrose of Milan, A Prayer

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For Sunday, October 1, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Tell Them To Stop! World Communion Sunday
• Book review: David Augsburger, Dissident Discipleship; A Spirituality of Self-Surrender, Love of God, and Love of Neighbor (2006)
• Film review: Peace One Day (2003)
• Poem review: George Herbert, Come, My Way

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For Sunday, September 24, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Little Children and God's Kingdom: The Holy Grail of Human Greatness
• Book review: Randall Balmer, Thy Kingdom Come; An Evangelical's Lament. How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America (2006)
• Film review: An Uncommon Kindness (2003)
• Poem review: William Cowper, God Moves in Mysterious Ways

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For Sunday, September 17, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Starry Heavens Above: Robust Faith and Rigorous Science
• Book review: Francis S. Collins, The Language of God; A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief in God (2006)
• Film review: The Boys of Baraka (2005)
• Poem review: Henry Lyte, Abide With Me

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For Sunday, September 10, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Flattering the Rich, Exploiting the Poor: Labor Day 2006
• Book review: Darkness Is My Only Companion; A Christian Response to Mental Illness by Kathryn Greene-McCreight (2006)
• Film review: Touch the Sound (2004)
• Poem review: Churchgoing by Marilyn Nelson

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For Sunday, September 3, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: No Outcasts Cast Out: From The Politics of Purity to The Call for Compassion
• Book review: The Myth of a Christian Nation; How the Quest for Political Power is Destroying the Church by Gregory A. Boyd (2006)
• Film review: Dandelion (2004)
• Poem review: I Taught Myself to Live Simply by Anna Akhmatova

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For Sunday, August 27, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Hearts on Pilgrimage
• Book review: The Weather Makers; How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery (2005)
• Film review: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
• Poem review: Invictus by Charles Munger, Jr.

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For Sunday, August 20, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: King Solomon, Politics and Power
• Book review: The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly (2006) (guest review by Julie Schaffner)
• Film review: An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
• Poem review: The Collar by George Herbert

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For Sunday, August 13, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Between the Animals and the Gods: Virtue and Vice according to the Apostle Paul
• Book review: Velvet Elvis; Repainting the Christian Faith by Rob Bell (2005)
• Film review: Sketches of Frank Gehry (2005)
• Poem review: The Daffodils by William Wordsworth

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For Sunday, August 6, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Thank You, Liberia: Ecumenical Gratitude for Works of Service
• Book review: Identity and Violence; The Illusion of Destiny by Amartya Sen
• Film review: Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
• Poem review: My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth

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For Sunday, July 30, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Father's Whole Family: No Exceptions Allowed
• Book review: The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad, trans. by Ingrid Christopherson (2002, 2004)
• Film review: The War Within (2005)
• Poem review: When I Consider How My Light Is Spent by John Milton.

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For Sunday, July 23, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Whose Agenda Is It Anyway? (guest essay by Sam Rowen)
• Book review: Barbara Brown Taylor, Leaving Church; A Memoir of Faith (2006)
• Film review: Capote (2005)
• Poem review: Maya Angelou, Alone

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For Sunday, July 16, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Dragged Along? (guest essay by David Buschart)
• Book review: Morris Berman, Dark Ages America; The Final Phase of Empire (2006)
• Film review: Good Night and Good Luck (2005)
• Poem review: Robert Frost, Oven Bird

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For Sunday, July 9, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Gospel of Our Weakness (guest essay by Dan Lewis)
• Book review: Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (2006)
• Film review: Wheel of Time (2003)
• Poem review: Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz
• Music Review: Peter Himmelman, Mission of My Soul: The Best of Peter Himmelman

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For Sunday, July 2, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Peace is Patriotic: Reflections for the Fourth of July
• Book review: Becky Garrison, Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church; Eyewitness Accounts of How American Churches Are Hijacking Jesus, Bagging the Beatitudes, and Worshipping the Almighty Dollar (2006)
• Film review: Roy Orbison and Friends: Black & White Night (1988)
• Poem review: Eavan Boland, The Emigrant Irish

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For Sunday, June 25, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Texts of Terror and the Enemies of God: What Should We Do When Religion Becomes Evil?
• Book review: General Tony Zinni and Tony Koltz, The Battle for Peace; A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose (2006)
• Film review: Dumbland (2005)
• Poem review: Emily Dickinson, #333 The Grass So Little Has To Do

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For Sunday, June 18, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Keeping Promises: Corpus Christi (Body and Blood of Christ) (guest essay by Don Thorsen)
• Book review: Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near; Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War (2005)
• Film review: The Squid and the Whale (2005)
• Poem review: William Butler Yeats, Politics

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For Sunday, June 11, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: So Far, So Near (guest essay by W. David Buschart)
• Book review: Frank McCourt, Teacher Man; A Memoir (2005)
• Film review: The White Diamond (2004)
• Poem review: Langston Hughes, Dreams

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For Sunday, June 4, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Hardest to Bear, Easiest to Forget: Pentecost 2006
• Book review: Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)
• Film review: Paradise Now (2005)
• Poem review: A Prayer for Pentecost (2006)

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For Sunday, May 28, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Judas and Matthias: On Mystery and Destiny
• Book review: Francis Fukuyama, America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy (2006)
• Film review: The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)
• Poem review: William ordsworth, I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud

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For Sunday, May 21, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Blast of the Ram's Horn: Subversive Acts of Christian Joy
• Book review: George Packer, Assassins' Gate; America in Iraq (2006)
• Film review: Saint Ralph (2004)
• Poem review: Philip Larkin, The Mower

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For Sunday, May 14, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Power of the Dogs: When Trouble is Near
• Book review: Jon Meacham, American Gospel; God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation (2006)
• Film review: Paper Clips (2005)
• Poem review: J.R.R. Tolkien, All Ye Joyful

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For Sunday, May 7, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: No Other Name: Only One Out of 10,000?
• Book review: Bruce Chilton, Mary Magdalene; A Biography (2005)
• Film review: Emmanuel's Gift (2005)
• Poem review: John Henry Newman, The Sign of the Cross

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For Sunday, April 30, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Divided Loyalties of Resident Aliens Strange Lands Your Home, Your Home a Strange Land
• Book review: Francis Fukuyama, America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy (2006) [replaced in the online print webzine by The Gospel of Judas]
• Film review: Wallace and Gromit; the Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
• Poem review: Denise Levertov, On the Mystery of the Incarnation

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For Sunday, April 23, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Much Grace Was With Them All: Our Distinctive Sign
• Book review: Judith M. Dean, Julie Schaffner, and Stephen L.S. Smith, editors, Attacking Poverty in the Developing World; Christian Practitioners and Academics in Collaboration (2005)
• Film review: North Country (2005)
• Poem review: Denise Levertov, Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell

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For Easter Sunday, April 16, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: This Is What We Preach
• Book review: Garry Wills, What Jesus Meant (2006)
• Film review: Walk the Line (2005)
• Poem review: Mary Ann Bernard, The Resurrection

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For Palm Sunday, April 9, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: A Lenten Letter To President George W. Bush; Lent 6B: Liturgy of the Passion
• Book review: Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next Attack; The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right (2005)
• Film review: Nine Lives (2005)
• Poem review: G.K. Chesterton, The Donkey

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For Sunday, April 2, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Contrition, Confession, and Candor: Lent 5B
• Book review: Bernard Brady and Mark Neuzil, A Spiritual Field Guide; Meditations for the Outdoors (2005)
• Film review: Bubble (2005)
• Poem review: Thomas Hopko, Lenten Prayers, Week 1

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For Sunday, March 26, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Life and Light, Death and Darkness: Lent 4B
• Book review: Hans Conrad Fischer, Johann Sebastian Bach; His Life in Pictures and Documents, with CD (1985, 2000)
• Film review: Milwaukee, Minnesota (2004)
• Poem review: St. Ephraim of Syria, Lenten Prayers, Week 4

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For Sunday, March 19, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Subtle as a Sledge Hammer: Jesus "Cleanses" the Temple: Lent 3B
• Book review: Jaroslav Pelikan, Acts; Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible (2005)
• Film review: Saints and Soldiers (2003)
• Poem review: John F. Deane, Mercy

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For Sunday, March 12, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: When Jesus Spoke Plainly: Lent 2B
• Book review: James Frey, A Million Little Pieces (2003)
• Film review: Mad Hot Ballroom (2005)
• Poem review: Czeslaw Milosz, Gift

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For Sunday, March 5, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: When God Was Green: The Original Eco-Covenant; Lent 1B
• Book review: Stanley Hauerwas, Cross-Shattered Christ; Meditations on the Seven Last Words (2004)
• Film review: Tarnation (2003)
• Poem review: Czeslaw Milosz, The Emperor Constantine
• Music review: Bob Dylan, Live at the Gaslight 1962

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For Sunday, February 26, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Listen to Him: the Transfigurations of Jesus
• Book review: Frank Anthony Spina, The Faith of the Outsider; Exclusion and Inclusion in the Biblical Story (2005)
• Film review: Schultze Gets the Blues (2003)
• Poem review: James Russell Lowell, from The Present Crisis

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For Sunday, February 19, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Letting Go of Your Story: Learning from Traudl Junge
• Book review: John Cassian, The Conferences (tr. by Boniface Ramsey, 1997)
• Film review: Broken Flowers (2005)
• Poem review: John Betjeman, Untitled

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For Sunday, February 12, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Naaman and Gehazi: the Outsider In, the Insider Out
• Book review: John Cassian, The Institutes (tr. by Boniface Ramsey, 2000)
• Film review: Grizzly Man (2005)
• Poem review: Emily Dickinson, Tell It Slant

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For Sunday, February 5, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: For the Weak and the Weary: A Spirituality of Imperfection
• Book review: Benedicta Ward (tr.), The Sayings of the Desert Fathers; The Alphabetical Collection (1975, 1984 rev. ed.)
• Film review: Turtles Can Fly (Kurdish, 2004)
• Poem review: William Wordsworth, The Tables Turned
• Music review: Neil Young, Prairie Wind

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For Sunday, January 29, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Repudiating Robertson: How Can We Know When God Speaks?
• Book review: John Chryssavgis, In the Heart of the Desert; The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers (2003)
• Film review: Downfall (2004)
• Poem review: Helen Keller, Untitled

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For Sunday, January 22, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: When Chronos Meets Kairos: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 2006
• Book review: Martin Meredith, The Fate of Africa; From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair: A History of 50 Years of Independence (2005)
• Film review: Nobody Knows (2004)
• Poem review: Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream

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For Sunday, January 15, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Samuel and the Silence of God: So You Wish to Hear a Word?
• Book review: Raymond G. Gordon, Jr., ed., Ethnologue; Languages of the World (2005)
• Film review: Wall (2004)
• Poem review: Reginald Heber, Epiphany

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For Sunday, January 8, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Tookie Williams and "Redemptive Transition": Tailor Made for The Wretched, Available for Everybody
• Book review: Rowan Williams, Where God Happens; Discovering Christ in One Another (2005)
• Film review: Spanglish (2004)
• Poem review: George Mackay Brown, Epiphany Poem
• Music review: Johnny Cash, My Mother's Hymn Book

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For Sunday, January 1, 2006

This recording contains:

• Essay: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern World: My New Year's Resolutions with Help from the Desert Monastics
• Book review: Jacques Ellul and Patrick Troude-Chastenet, Jacques Ellul on Politics, Technology and Christianity (2005)
• Film review: Born Into Brothels (2004)
• Poem review: Alfred Tennyson, A New Year's Poem

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For Sunday, December 25, 2005

This recording contains:

• Essay: When the Time Came: Christmas 2005
• Book review: Walter Brueggemann, Spirituality of the Psalms (2002)
• Film review: Spellbound (2002)
• Poem review: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christmas Bells

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For Sunday, December 18, 2005
Fourth Sunday in Advent

This recording contains:

• Essay: Mary
• Book review: Anne Ricel, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (2005)
• Film review: March of the Penguins (2005)
• Poem review: U.A. Fanthorpe, BC:AD

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For Sunday, December 11, 2005
Third Sunday in Advent

This recording contains:

• Essay: Taking Sides: Reversals
• Book review: Jonathan Hill, What Has Christianity Ever Done For Us? (2005)
• Film review: Born Into Brothels (2004)
• Poem review: John Donne, Annunciation

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For Sunday, December 4, 2005
Second Sunday in Advent

This recording contains:

• Essay: Close to His Heart: Tenderness
• Book review: Edmund Morris, Beethoven; The Universal Composer (2005)
• Film review: Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
• Poem review: John Donne, Nativity

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For Sunday, November 27, 2005
First Sunday in Advent

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• Essay: Drinking Tears By The Bowlful: Waiting
• Book review: Huston Smith, The Soul of Christianity; Restoring the Great Tradition (2005)
• Film review: Crash (2004)
• Poem review: Sr. M. Charlita IHM, Advent Antiphons

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For Sunday, November 20, 2005

This recording contains:

• Essay: Global Joy for "All Ye Lands"
• Book review: Scot McKnight, The Jesus Creed; Loving God, Loving Others (2005)
• Film review: The Lords of Dogtown (2005)
• Poem review: Alexander Pope, Ode on Solitude

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For Sunday, November 13, 2005

This recording contains:

• Essay: Coming in Glory
• Book review: Joakim Garff, Soren Kierkegaard; A Biography
• Film review: The Endurance (2000)
• Poem review: Paul Laurance Dunbar, We Wear the Mask

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For Sunday, November 6, 2005

This recording contains:

• Essay: Everyday Lives of Ordinary People; All Saints Day 2005
• Book review: Andrew Bacevich, The New American Militarism; How Americans Are Seduced By War (2005)
• Film review: Distant (2002)
• Poem review: Rainer Maria Rilke, The Observer

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For Sunday, October 30, 2005

This recording contains:

• Essay: Correcting the Correction: Reformation Day 2005 (October 31)
• Book review: Michael Kimmelman, The Accidental Masterpiece; On the Art of Life and Vice Versa (2005)
• Film review: Everest (1998)
• Poem review: Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H.

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For Sunday, October 23, 2005

This recording contains:

• Essay: Coming Closer to Myself: Reflections on Turning 50
• Book review: Rainer Maria Rilke, Pictures of God; Rilke's Religious Poetry (2005)
• Film review: What The Bleep Do We Know!? (2005)
• Poem review: Rudyard Kipling, If...

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For Sunday, October 16, 2005

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• Essay: Show Me The Money: Unconditional Allegiance to the Unconditioned God
• Book review: Jaroslav Pelikan, Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages (2005)
• Film review: The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003)
• Poem review: Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur

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For Sunday, October 9, 2005

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• Essay: Idolatry: From A Golden Calf To "Military Metaphysics"
• Book review: J. Allan Hobson, Dreaming; An Introduction to the Science of Sleep (2002)
• Film review: The Story of the Weeping Camel (2003)
• Poem review: Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

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For Sunday, October 2, 2005

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• Essay: Ten Words
• Book review: Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods (1995)
• Film review: Unchained Memories; Readings from the Slave Narratives (2003)
• Poem review: John Donne, Death Be Not Proud

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For Sunday, September 25, 2005

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• Essay: The Monster Who Was Sorry
• Book review: Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003)
• Film review: Andy Goldsworthy: Rivers and Tides, Working With Time (2001)
• Poem review: Robert Herrick, To Find God

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For Sunday, September 18, 2005

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• Essay: Employee #00001
• Book review: Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit
• Film review: ABC Africa
• Poem review: George Herbert, Man

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For Sunday, September 11, 2005

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Arithmetic of Forgiveness
• Book review: Larry Diamond, Squandered Victory; The American Occupation and The Bungled Effort To Bring Democracy To Iraq
• Film review: The Dreams of Sparrows
• Poem review: Bikki Gautam, Tears of Blood