IN THIS ISSUE

ARTICLES ON ANGER

Musings Before a Sermon on Anger..........David H.C. Read...........4
It is difficult but possible to be angry and not sin

Anger and Liberating Grace................Rosemary Radford Ruether..6
We need to understand the cultural politics of anger

Positive Uses of Anger....................John C. Bennett...........8
Anger needs to be directed against impersonal forces that block justice

Biblical Reflections on the Wrath of God..George M. Landes.........10
Divine anger is part of God's emotional response to human malfeasance

Anger in the Hebrew Scriptures............Stephen D. Franklin......12
Words in Hebrew Scripture distinguish a wide variety of types of anger

Prophetic Anger From the Perspective......Keith A. Russell.........13
of Jeremiah
How central is anger to the call of ministry?

"Do You Do Well to be Angry?".............Robert Ellsberg..........14
God's mercy extends to our enemies

Our Job is to Stay Angry..................Marjorie Procter-Smith...16
Anger is an expression of hope

From Anger to Acceptance..................Robin Scroggs............17
Wholeness includes an acceptance of anger

Embracing Anger Responsibly...............Barbara Nilsen...........18
We need to learn to express anger in healthy ways

Lest We Forget the Larger Context.........John T. Galloway, Jr.....20
of Anger
Anger's larger perspective is the knowledge that we are all sinners

The Response of Anger.....................Emily A. Miller..........22
Jesus' anger expresses itself through rebuke and instruction

The Anger Crucible.................................................24
Anger seeks to usurp divine power 

QUOTATIONS ON ANGER

In the Hebrew Scriptures [26]
In the New Testament Scriptures [27]
By Theologians, Scholars and Saints [28]
By Poets and Writers [29]
By Psychologists and Leaders [30]

BOOKS ON ANGER

Anger: The Challenge of the Lectionary by Judith Hoch Wray [31]
Surplus Powerlessness by Michael Lerner [32]
The Moral Sense by James Q. Wilson [33]
A poet and a novelist write about anger by W.H. Auden and Mary Gordon [34]
Race Matters by Cornel West [35]

IDEAS ON ANGER 
Preaching from Anger.......................Don M. Wardlaw...........36
Anger, A Mixed Emotion.....................Carroll Saussy...........38
African-American Men: Abuse, Anger.........Donn Charles Thomas......40
and Healing
"Be Angry, But Do Not Sin".................Harvey K. McArthur.......42
Anger and Love.............................Micki Bingham Esselstyn..43
Preaching on Anger.........................John Giles Milhaven......44
Anger and the Discerning Activist..........Albert J. Fritsch, S.J...46
Counterparts: Anger and Abuse..............Ginger Grab..............47
Holy Anger.................................Thomas H. Troeger....Inside
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