Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *Voices from the Desert: New Year's Resolutions from our Monastic Mothers and Fathers*, for Sunday, 4 January 2009; book review: *Called Out of Darkness; A Spiritual Confession* by Anne Rice (2008); film review: *Synecdoche, New York* (2008); poem review: *Epiphany* by Walter Brueggemann.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *How Silently, How Silently, The Wondrous Gift is Given: Christmas 2008*, for Sunday, 28 December 2008; book review: *Hot, Flat, and Crowded; Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America* by Thomas Friedman (2008); film review: *Das Fraulein* (2007, Switzerland); poem review: *The Stable* by Sr. M. Chrysostom.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *A Startling Announcement to a Girl from Nazareth*, guest essay by novelist Ron Hansen, for Sunday, 21 December 2008; book review: *Home* by Marilynne Robinson (2008); film review: *Innocent Voices* (2004); poem review: *On the Mystery of the Incarnation* by Diane Levertov.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *The Subversive Song of the Mother of God: Mary's Magnificat* for Sunday, 14 December 2008; book review: *The Forever War* by Dexter Filkins (2008); film review: *The Savages* (2007); poem review: *BC:AD* by U.A. Fanthorpe.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *Will the Christian Church Keep Its Promise? World AIDS Day* for Sunday, 7 December 2008; book review: *The Limits of Power; The End of American Exceptionalism* by Andrew J. Bacevich (2008); film review: *Gunnin' for that #1 Spot* (2008); poem review: *Annunciation* by John Donne.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *"Awesome Things That We Did Not Expect"* for Sunday, 30 November 2008; book review: *The Dark Side; The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals* by Jane Mayer (2008); film review: *Taxi to the Dark Side* (2007); poem review: *Advent Credo* by Daniel Berrigan.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *American Torture and A Presidential Promise* for Sunday, 23 November 2008; book review: *The Gift of Years; Growing Older Gracefully* by Joan Chittister (2008); film review: *Choking Man* (2007); poem review: *A Prayer of Soren Kierkegaard*.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *The Prophet Zephaniah and "The Great Day of the Lord"* for Sunday, 16 November 2008; book review: *Musicophilia; Tales of Music and the Brain* by Oliver Sacks (2007); film review: *Religulous* (2008); poem review: *God's Grandeur* by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

*America's Next President: Beware of The Battered Wife Syndrome* for Sunday, 9 November 2008; book review: *Acedia and Me; A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life* by Kathleen Norris(2008); film review: *Atonement* (2007); poem review: *Credo* by Daniel Berrigan.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *Celebrating the Saints: All Saints Day* for Sunday, 2 November 2008; book review: *Torture Team; Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values* by Philippe Sands (2008); film review: *An Uncommon Kindness* (2003); poem review: *For All the Saints* by William How.