Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *Religious Faith: Worthless or Faultless?* for Sunday, 2 September 2012; book review: *Font of Life; Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism* by Garry Wills(2012); film review: *I Am Because We Are* (2008, Malawi); poem review: *From the Bridge* by Claribel Alegria.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *Were the First Christians Cannibals? "Eat My Flesh, Drink My Blood"* for Sunday, 26 August 2012; book review: *A Door in the Ocean; A Memoir* by David McGlynn (2012); film review: *Without the King* (2007, Swaziland); poem review: *Christmas* by John Betjeman; music review: *I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive* by Steve Earle.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *"An Inevitable and Tragic Conflict:" The Christian Gospel and America's Presidential Election* for Sunday, 19 August 2012; book review: *A Long Bright Future; An Action Plan for a Lifetime of Happiness, Health, and Financial Security* by Laura L. Carstensen (2012); film review: *Ruby Sparks* (2012); poem review: *Politics* by William Butler Yeats.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *A Deep Moment: The Way of Saint James and the Words of Jesus* for Sunday, 12 August 2012; book review: *In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians; A Story of Suppression, Secrecy and Survival* by John Dougill (2012); film review: *Vision* (2009, Germany); poem review: *O Shepherd of Souls* by Hildegard of Bingen.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *Human Desires Divinely Filled: Jesus the Bread of Life* for Sunday, 5 August 2012; book review: *Ten Popes Who Shook the World* by Eamon Duffy (2011); film review: *Fambul Tok* (2011, Sierra Leone); poem review: *The Tables Turned* by William Wordsworth.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *Befriending our Brokenness: Lessons from Maurice Sendak (1928-2012)* for Sunday, 29 July 2012; book review: *Falling Upward; A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life* by Richard Rohr (2011); film review: *First Position* (2011); poem review: *Father, Most High, Be With Us* by Prudentius.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *He Made the Two One* for Sunday, 22 July 2012; book review: *Drink the Bitter Root: A Search for Justice and Healing in Africa* by Gary Geddes (2011); film review: *Turtle: The Incredible Journey* (2011); poem review: *The Celestial Surgeon* by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *Sacred Scripture, Violent Verses: How Should We Read the Bible's Texts of Terror?* for Sunday, 15 July 2012; book review: *Life Gets Better; The Unexpected Pleasures of Growing Older* by Wendy Lustbader (2011); film review: *The Way We Get By* (2009); poem review: *Abide With Me* by Henry Lyte.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *"They Took Offense at Him:" Losing Your Mind to Find Your Way* for Sunday, 8 July 2012; book review: *Ariel, the Restored Edition; A Facsimilie of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement* by Sylvia Plath (2004); film review: *The Universe of Keith Haring* (2008); poem review: *A Nation* by Czeslaw Milosz.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *I'm Already Against the Next War: War and Violence, Sacred and Secular* for Sunday, 1 July 2012; book review: *Laying Down the Sword; Why We Can't Ignore The Bible's Violent Verses* by Philip Jenkins (2011); film review: *Dark Days* (2000); poem review: *Dulce et Decorum Est* by Wilfred Owen.