For Sunday, August 24, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: Positively Maladjusted: Martin Luther King and "Transformed Nonconformity"
• Book review: Rick Bragg, All Over But the Shoutin' (1997)
• Film review: Shanghai Ghetto (2002)
• Poem review: e.e. cummings, I Thank You God

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For Sunday, August 17, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: "All the Ends of the Earth"
• Book review: Bartholomew I, His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch, Encountering the Mystery; Understanding Orthodox Christianity Today (2008)
• Film review: What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)
• Poem review: Czeslaw Milosz, A Nation

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For Sunday, August 10, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: Elijah: "The Troubler of Israel"
• Book review: Daniel Berrigan, The Kings and Their Gods; The Pathology of Power (2008)
• Film review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
• Poem review: John Donne, Sonnet XIV

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For Sunday, August 3, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: Dark Struggles, Divine Blessings: Jacob at the River Jabbok
• Book review: Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World
• Film review: The Violin (Mexican, 2007)
• Poem review: John Donne, Nativity

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For Sunday, July 27, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: Accepting God's Acceptance: The Certainty of God's Love
• Book review: Rick Bragg, The Prince of Frogtown (2008) (Guest review by Tom Ford, ELCA Lutheran pastor)
• Film review: I'm Not There (2007)
• Poem review: John Donne, A Hymn to God the Father

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For Sunday, July 20, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: In Heaven and On Earth: Each Person, Every Nation, All Creation, The Entire Cosmos
• Book review: Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow, The Last Lecture (2008)
• Film review: War Dance (Ugana, 2008)
• Poem review: John Donne, Holy Sonnet I

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For Sunday, July 13, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: Family Values, Biblical Style
• Book review: Gene Robinson, In the Eye of the Storm; Swept to the Center By God (2008)
• Film review: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (French, 2007)
• Poem review: John Donne, For Whom the Bell Tolls

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For Sunday, July 6, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: A King on a Colt? Zechariah's Peace Poetry
• Book review: Muhammad Yunus, Creating a World Without Poverty; Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (2007)
• Film review: King Corn (2007)
• Poem review: John Donne, Death Be Not Proud

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For Sunday, June 29, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: A Father Sacrifices His Son, A God Tests His Disciple
• Book review: Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor; Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (1999, 2003)
• Film review: Nanking (2007)
• Poem review: John Donne, Annunciation

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For Sunday, June 22, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: How Do We Love Burma? A Natural Disaster Exposes a Government's War Against Its Own People
• Book review: David Livingstone Smith, The Most Dangerous Animal; Human Nature and the Origins of War (2007)
• Film review: Mother of Mine (2005, Finland)
• Poem review: Chaim Stern, ed., Prayer for Overcoming Indifference

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For Sunday, June 15, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: "God Has Brought Me Laughter:" Sarah, "The Mother of Nations"
• Book review: Cormac McCarthy, The Road (2006)
• Film review: Barrio Cuba (2005)
• Poem review: Wendell Berry, A Timbered Choir

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For Sunday, June 8, 2008

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• Essay: The Journey Without, The Journey Within: Ignorance, Inclusion, and Impotence
• Book review: Robyn Meredith, The Elephant and the Dragon; The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us (2007)
• Film review: For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)
• Poem review: Wendell Berry, Sabbath Poem VII

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For Sunday, June 1, 2008

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• Essay: He Breaks the Bow and Shatters the Spear: Peace Poetry for Memorial Day 2008
• Book review: Carol Curoe and Robert Curoe, Are There Closets in Heaven? A Catholic Father and a Lesbian Daughter Share Their Story (2007)
• Film review: Stop Loss (2008)
• Poem review: Wendell Berry, Sabbath

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For Sunday, May 25, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: Listening to the Birds, Looking at the Flowers
• Book review: Jeffrey Sachs, Common Wealth; Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008)
• Film review: No Country for Old Men (2007)
• Poem review: Wendell Berry, Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

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For Sunday, May 18, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Poetry of Creation
• Book review: Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion; Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (2007)
• Film review: U23D (2008)
• Poem review: Hildegard of Bingen, O Eternal Lord

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For Sunday, May 11, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: From the Inspiration of the Spirit to the Institution of the Church: Pentecost 2008
• Book review: Ronald J. Sider, The Scandal of Evangelical Politics (2008)
• Film review: There Will Be Blood (2007)
• Poem review: Hildegard of Bingen, O Comforting Fire of Spirit

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For Sunday, May 4, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: "Everyone Has a Name": Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Book review: Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering; Death and the American Civil War (2008)
• Film review: The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Paul Haggis (2006)
• Poem review: Hildegard of Bingen, Holy Spirit

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For Sunday, April 27, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: From Synagogues and Sanctuaries to Bars and Boardrooms: The Apostle Paul at the Areopagus
• Book review: Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War; The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (2008)
• Film review: Yesterday (2004, Zulu)
• Poem review: Hildegard of Bingen, O Shepherd of Souls

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For Sunday, April 20, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: Is Christianity A "Sublime Bigotry?" 10 Reflections on the Gospel and World Religions
• Book review: Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food; An Eater's Manifesto (2008)
• Film review: Vertigo (1958)
• Poem review: Prudentius, Father, Most High, Be With Us

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For Sunday, April 13, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: Giving Wealth, Getting Faith
• Book review: Garry Wills, What The Gospels Meant (2008)
• Film review: The Tunnel (2001, German)
• Poem review: Prudentius, Now With Creation's Morning Song

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For Sunday, April 6, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: Science or the Psalms? A God Who Sees, Hears, and Acts
• Book review: Rowan Williams, Tokens of Trust; An Introduction to Christian Belief (2007)
• Film review: Into Great Silence (2005)
• Poem review: Prudentius, Servant of God

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For Sunday, March 30, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: Praying for Peace: The Fifth Anniversary of the Iraq War
• Book review: Carmen Acevedo Butcher, translator and editor, Hildegard of Bingen; A Spiritual Reader (2007)
• Film review: This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
• Poem review: Prudentius, Of the Father's Love Begotten

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For Sunday, March 23, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: "Their Words Seemed Like Nonsense": Easter Sunday 2008
• Book review: Robert Louis Wilken, The Spirit of Early Christian Thought; Seeking the Face of God (2003)
• Film review: Ratatouille (2007)
• Poem review: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Easter Communion

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For Sunday, March 16, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Parallel Universe of the Passion of Jesus
• Book review: Robert Louis Wilken, The Christians as the Romans Saw Them (1984, 2008)
• Film review: The Other Side of the Mirror; Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963–1965 (review by David Werther) (2007)
• Poem review: George Herbert, The Storm

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For Sunday, March 9, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: Jesus Wept: Fifth Sunday in Lent 2008
• Book review: National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine, Science, Evolution, and Creationism (2008)
• Film review: Maria, Full of Grace (2004)
• Poem review: George Herbert, The Sinner

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For Sunday, March 2, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: Betwixt This World and That of Grace: Fourth Sunday in Lent 2008
• Book review: Tony Jones, The New Christians; Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier (2008)
• Film review: Amores Perros (2000, Mexican)
• Poem review: George Herbert, The Quip

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For Sunday, February 24, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Woman at the Well: Third Sunday in Lent 2008
• Book review: David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons, UnChristian; What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity (2007)
• Film review: Helvetica (2007)
• Poem review: George Herbert, Love (III)

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For Sunday, February 17, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: Abraham in Three Movements: Second Sunday in Lent 2008
• Book review: Matthew Levering, Ezra and Nehemiah; Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible (2007)
• Film review: Talk to Her (2002, Spanish)
• Poem review: George Herbert, The Holdfast

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For Sunday, February 10, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: Super Tuesday Meets Ash Wednesday: First Sunday in Lent 2008
• Book review: Peter Leithart, 1&2 Kings; Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible (2006)
• Film review: The Simpsons Movie (2007)
• Poem review: George Herbert, The Agonie

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For Sunday, February 3, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Transfiguration of Jesus: "The Real Truth" or A "Pernicious Superstition?"
• Book review: Stanley Hauerwas, Matthew; Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible (2007)
• Film review: Hairspray (2007)
• Poem review: George Herbert, Affliction IV

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For Sunday, January 27, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: Race and Repentance: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
• Book review: John Bul Dau with Michael S. Sweeney, God Grew Tired of Us; A Memoir(2007)
• Film review: Journey from the Fall (Vuot Song) (2007, Vietnam)
• Poem review: The Valley of Vision, Arthur Bennett, ed.

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For Sunday, January 20, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Outrage of Outsiders: Why So Many People Dislike Christians
• Book review: Eric Clapton, Clapton: The Autobiography (2007) (Guest book review by David Werther.)
• Film review: Searching for Wrong-Eyed Jesus (2003)
• Poem review: Edwina Gateley, Let Your God Love You

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For Sunday, January 13, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: Wading Into the Waters: The Baptism of Jesus
• Book review: Dang Thuy Tram, Last Night I Dreamed of Peace; The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram (2007)
• Film review: The War; A Ken Burns Film, Disc 1 (2007)
• Poem review: The Peace Prayer of St. Francis

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For Sunday, January 6, 2008

This recording contains:

• Essay: Pagan Magi and Power Politics: The "Disclosure" of Epiphany
• Book review: Mark A. Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (2006)
• Film review: Mongolian Ping Pong (2004, Mongolian)
• Poem review: A Future Not Our Own (in memory of Oscar Romero)

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For Sunday, December 30, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Remembering Rachel: The Slaughter of the Innocents, guest essay by Pam Fickenscher, a Lutheran pastor, mother and writer living in Minnesota. She blogs regularly about ministry, motherhood, and the lectionary.
• Book review: Alister McGrath, Christianity's Dangerous Idea; The Protestant Revolution—A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First (2007)
• Film review: Blade Runner, The Director's Cut (1992)
• Poem review: Christopher Harvey, The Nativity

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For Sunday, December 23, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Who Wants to Wait?, guest essay by Lindsey Crittenden, the author of The Water Will Hold You; A Skeptic Learns to Pray (Harmony Books, 2007) and numerous published essays, articles, and stories
• Book review: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel (2007) (guest review by Katie Finlay)
• Film review: David Blaine: Fearless (2002)
• Poem review: U.A. Fanthorpe, BC:AD

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For Sunday, December 16, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: My Soul Proclaims: Submission and Subversion in Mary's Magnificat, guest essay by Sara Miles, author of Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion (2007)
• Book review: (guest review by Milton Brasher-Cunningham): Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (2007)
• Film review: 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
• Poem review: John Donne, Annunciation

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For Sunday, December 9, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: To Live in Longing, guest essay by Nora Gallagher, the author of two memoirs about faith and doubt: Things Seen and Unseen and Practicing Resurrection, and a new novel, Changing Light
• Book review: James Allen, Hilton Als, Congressman John Lewis, and Leon F. Litwack Without Sanctuary; Lynching Photography in America (2000)
• Film review: Into the Wild (2007)
• Poem review: G.K. Chesterton, The House of Christmas

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For Sunday, December 2, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Bringing Heaven to Earth Here and Now Guest essay by Joan Roughgarden, author of Evolution and Christian Faith; Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist (2006)
• Book review: Andrew Greeley, Jesus; A Meditation on His Stories and His Relationships with Women (2007)
• Film review: In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)
• Poem review: Denise Levertov, On the Mystery of the Incarnation

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For Sunday, November 25, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Absence of God's Presence: Mother Teresa, Martin Luther, and Psalm 46
• Book review: Brian Kolodiejchuk, ed., Mother Teresa; Come Be My Light; The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta" (2007)
• Film review: The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
• Poem review: Daniel Berrigan, Advent Credo

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For Sunday, November 18, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Hope of History: From a Garden to a City
• Book review: Madeline Levine, The Price of Privilege; How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids (2006)
• Film review: IMAX Blue Planet (1990)
• Poem review: John Donne, Nativity

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For Sunday, November 11, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: In the Dust and the Dirt: Greater Glory in Lesser Circumstances
• Book review: Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan, The First Christmas; What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth (2007)
• Film review: In the Valley of Elah (2007)
• Poem review: Teresa of Avila, Christ Has No Body

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For Sunday, November 4, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: A Decisive Moment Worth Singing About: Remembering The Protestant Reformation (guest essay by Sam Rowen)
• Book review: Vijay Prashad, The Darker Nations; A People's History of the Third World (2007)
• Film review: INLAND EMPIRE (2006)
• Poem review: Martin Niemoller, First They Came

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For Sunday, October 28, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Seven Little Words: The Only Prayer You'll Ever Need
• Book review: Escape from Laos (2006)
• Film review: Forgiving Dr. Mengele (2007)
• Poem review: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Child's Thought of God

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For Sunday, October 21, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Jacob: Blessed by God and Limping Ever After
• Book review: Brian Steidle, The Devil Came on Horseback; Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur (2006)
• Film review: Rescue Dawn (2007)
• Poem review: Phillis Wheatley, On Virtue

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For Sunday, October 14, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Strange People, Strange Places: The Geography of Salvation
• Book review: Gordon Livingston, M.D., Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart – Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now (2006)
• Film review: Flags of our Fathers (2006)
• Poem review: Phillis Wheatley, An Hymn to the Morning

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For Sunday, October 7, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Grammar of Faith: Watching and Waiting
• Book review: George McGovern and William R. Polk, Out of Iraq; A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now (2006)
• Film review: Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
• Poem review: Phillis Wheatley, An Hymn to the Evening

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For Sunday, September 30, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: He Knows My Name
• Book review: Helen Epstein, The Invisible Cure; Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS (2007)
• Film review: Deep Water (2006)
• Poem review: Jane Kenyon, Otherwise

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For Sunday, September 23, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: How Long, O Lord? Why the Delay in Divine Intervention?
• Book review: Melissa Fay Greene, There Is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue Africa’s Children (2006)
• Film review: Kurosawa (2001)
• Poem review: George MacDonald, Morning Hymn

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For Sunday, September 16, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Remembering 9/11: Political Blowback or Divine Judgment?
• Book review: Lindsey Crittenden, The Water Will Hold You; A Skeptic Learns to Pray (2007)
• Film review: No End in Sight (2007)
• Poem review: George MacDonald, The Grace of Grace

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For Sunday, September 9, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: When the Fairest Cut is the Deepest: The Risk of Renunciation
• Book review: Joshua Key as told to Lawrence Hill, The Deserter's Tale; The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq(2007)
• Film review: Combat Diary; The Marines of Lima Company (2006)
• Poem review: George MacDonald, An Evening Prayer

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For Sunday, September 2, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Jesus Does Dinner: Food for Thought for Guests and Hosts
• Book review: Beverly Lowry, Harriet Tubman, A Biography (2007)
• Film review: BattleGround; 21 Days on the Empire's Edge (2003)
• Poem review: George MacDonald, The Carpenter

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For Sunday, August 26, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Sabbath-Keeping, Fasting, and "My Own Flesh and Blood"
• Book review: Gore Vidal, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace; How We Got To Be So Hated(2002)
• Film review: Maxed Out (2006)
• Poem review: Gerard Manley Hopkins, As Kingfishers Catch Fire

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For Sunday, August 19, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: False Hopes, Bad Dreams, and Reckless Lies: Jeremiah Yesterday and Today
• Book review: Noam Chomsky, Failed States; The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (2006)
• Film review: Word Wars (2004)
• Poem review: G.K. Chesterton, A Prayer in Darkness

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For Sunday, August 12, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: God Bless You, Tammy Faye (1942–1997)! "She Was Living By Faith When She Died"
• Book review: Chalmers Johnson, Nemesis; The Last Days of the American Republic (2006)
• Film review: Why We Fight (2005)
• Poem review: G.K. Chesterton, The Convert

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For Sunday, August 5, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: "Christ is All and is In All": Beyond Identity Violence and Social Hierarchies
• Book review: The Sorrows of Empire; Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (2004)
• Film review: Let the Church Say Amen (2004)
• Poem review: GK Chesterton, The Beatific Vision

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For Sunday, July 29, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Scandal of the Particular: Preached at Trinity Church (guest essay by Nora Gallagher)
• Book review: Chalmers Johnson, Blowback; The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (2000, 2004)
• Film review: Idiocracy (2006)
• Poem review: John Donne, For Whom the Bell Tolls

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For Sunday, July 22, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Growing Strong By Destroying Others: To the "Notable Men of the Foremost Nation"
• Book review: Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains; Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves (2005)
• Film review: Wordplay (2006)
• Poem review: George Herbert, Aaron

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For Sunday, July 15, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Prophet Amos to the Priest Amaziah: Stop Pimping Religion for Political Empire
• Book review: Thom S. Rainer and Eric Geiger, Simple Church; Returning to God's Process for Making Disciples (2006)
• Film review: Once (2006, Ireland)
• Poem review: Calvin Miller, Creation Praise

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For Sunday, July 8, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Like Lambs Among Wolves: Gospel Reflections on the Temptations of Violence
• Book review: Cullen Murphy, Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America (2007)
• Film review: The War Tapes (2006)
• Poem review: Calvin Miller, Celtic Morning Prayer

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For Sunday, July 1, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Only, Entire, and Greatest Thing: The Most Important Verse Not in the Bible
• Book review: Calvin Miller, The Path of Celtic Prayer; An Ancient Way to Everyday Joy (2007)
• Film review: Fast Food Nation (2006)
• Poem review: Alexander Carmichael, from the Carmina Gadelica

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For Sunday, June 24, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Celebrating Three Years: 2004–2007
• Book review: Dorothy Sayers, Are Women Human? (1971, 2005)
• Film review: Who The #$&% is Jackson Pollock? (2006)
• Poem review: St. Brendan the Voyager, The Journey Prayer

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For Sunday, June 17, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Are Women Human? Jesus, Women, and Identity Politics
• Book review: Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great; How Religion Poisons Everything (2007)
• Film review: La Tragedia de Macario (2006, Mexico)
• Poem review: C.S. Lewis, In Praise of Solid People

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For Sunday, June 10, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Paul's "Previous Way of Life": From Violent Aggression to Indiscriminate Love
• Book review: Sara Miles, Take this Bread; A Radical Conversion (2007)
• Film review: Bobby (2006)
• Poem review: G.K. Chesterton, The End of Fear

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For Sunday, June 3, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Upside-down and Backward: Finding Faith to Read Reality
• Book review: George Tenet, At the Center of the Storm; My Years at the CIA (2007)
• Film review: Volver (2006, Spain)
• Poem review: John Bunyan, The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation

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For Sunday, May 27, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Beyond Babel: Pentecost Sunday
• Book review: Bill McKibben, Deep Economy; The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future(2007)
• Film review: Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
• Poem review: John Dryden, Veni, Creator Spiritus

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For Sunday, May 20, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: The Last Sentence of the Bible: Grace to All
• Book review: Ed Viesturs, with David Roberts, No Shortcuts to the Top; Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (2006)
• Film review: Alexandra's Project (2003, Australia)
• Poem review: Sylvia Plath, A Better Resurrection

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For Sunday, May 13, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Bottled Lightning: Don't Extinguish the Fire, Don't Shatter the Vessel
• Book review: Joan Roughgarden, Evolution and Christian Faith; Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist (2006)
• Film review: The Lives of Others (2006, German)
• Poem review: Philip Larkin, Church Going

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For Sunday, May 6, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Any Person, Every Nation:"Even the Gentiles"
• Book review: Michelle Goldberg, Kingdom Coming; The Rise of Christian Nationalism (2006)
• Film review: Borat (2006)
• Poem review: Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon

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For Sunday, April 29, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Every Tribe, Every Tear: "The Healing of the Nations"
• Book review: Roger Housden, Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living (2005)
• Film review: The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006, Mexican)
• Poem review: Edwin Muir, The Child Dying

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For Sunday, April 22, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Peter and Paul: Before and After
• Book review: .Harold Bloom and Jesse Zuba, editors, American Religious Poems, An Anthology (2006)
• Film review: Babel (2006, Mexican)
• Poem review: Tomas Tranströmer, Task To Be Who I Am

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For Sunday, April 15, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: We Must Obey God Rather Than Men: With Gratitude to Morgan Tsvangirai
• Book review: Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience; A Personal View of the Search for God.(2006)
• Film review: Man of the Year (2003, Brazil)
• Poem review: Henry Vaughan, The Revival

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For Sunday, April 8, 2007

This recording contains:

• Essay: Believing the Believers: "Public Evidence for a Mystery"
• Book review: David Kuo, Tempting Faith; An Inside Story of Political Seduction (2006)
• Film review: Campfire (2004, Israel)
• Poem review: Mary Ann Bernard, Resurrection

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For Sunday, April 1, 2007

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• Essay: He's Subverting Our Nation! Palm Sunday
• Book review: Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan, The Last Week; A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus's Final Week in Jerusalem (2006)
• Film review: Junebug (2005)
• Poem review: G.K. Chesterton, The Donkey

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For Sunday, March 25, 2007

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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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