Reading Suggestions

Recommended Books for Episcopalians, Christians, and Inquiring Souls

from Dean Lane,
Cathedral Church of Saint John, Wilmington, Delaware

1 April 2011

JESUS AND THE LAND Gary M. Burge (Baker Academic)

JOURNEY TO THE COMMON GOOD Walter Brueggemann (Westminster, John Knox Press)

FROM JESUS TO CHRISTIANITY L. Michael White (Harper One)

TWELVE MONTHS OF SUNDAYS N T Wright (SPCK)

11 January, 2011

THE SCANDALOUS GOSPEL OF JESUS by Peter J. Gomes (HarperOne)

WHAT PAUL MEANT by Garry Wills (Penguin)

THE GREATEST PRAYER John Dominic Crossan (HarperCollins)

FIRST FAMILY by Joseph J. Ellis (Knoph)

5 November, 2010

The First Christmas by Marcus Borg and Dominic Crossan (Harper One)

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner (Norton)

The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold, Farrar (Straus and Giroux)

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe (Oneworld Publications)

The Lord & His Prayer by N. T. Wright (Eerdmans)

Other Pages by the Dean

Dean’s Sermons:

5th Sunday in Lent, April 10, 2011 "A Vision of Resurrection"

3rd Sunday in Lent, March 27, 2011 "The Cost of Freedom"

22nd Sunday after Pentecost, Oct. 24, 2010

16th Sunday after Pentecost, Sept. 12, 2010

12th Sunday after Pentecost, August 15, 2010

2nd Sunday after Pentecost, June 6, 2010

3rd Easter, April 18, 2010

Easter Vigil, April 3, 2010

Epiphany, January 18, 2009

Maundy Thursday, April 9, 2009

Easter Vigil, April 11, 2009

2nd Easter, April 19, 2009

14th Sunday after Pentecost, September 6, 2009

21st Sunday after Pentecost, October 25, 2009
Christmas, December 25, 2009

Cathedral Call Letters from the Dean