| FAMILY July * September 1999 Volme 8 No. 3 |
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| FAMILY July * September 1999 Volme 8 No. 3 |
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IN THIS ISSUE
ARTICLES ON FAMILY
Who Are My Mother and My
Brothers?...................................Robert Ellsberg....................4
Jesus opposes a narrow, exclusive model of family that keeps others out
Society is an Act of
Faith.......................................................Victoria Lee
Erickson..........6
The family is the central hub of the social wheel
Family Values or Market Values?: A
Meditation........................Tom F. Driver.....................8
Hostility towards family runs through our dominant economic system
Family
Ties............................................................................Donna
Berman.................10
Family should be a place where individuals' gifts are recognized and cherished
A Cultural Reflection on Family
Survival....................................Demetra Velisarios Jaquet.11
The struggle to maintain family identity in the face of political oppression
The Family in Historical
Perspective.........................................Justo L. Gonzalez..............12
Christianity questioned Roman family values and offered a more inclusive and compassionate
vision
Holy Family / Wholly
Family....................................................Walter J. Burghardt, S.J.....14
Mary, Joseph and Jesus model holiness, a community of love, sharing, and justice
The Family of God, Broken and
Beloved....................................Barbara Bate.....................16
Several dangers to the church emerge from the myth of the "good family"
An Autobiography of a Confucian-Christian
Family......................David Kwang-sun Suh.........18
A balance of Western and Confucian values could do much to enrich family relationships
A Search for
Family.................................................................Barbara
Pegg.....................20
A single parent talks about the Church as the Family of God
Tribalism and the New Definition of
Family.................................Ann L. Hallstein..................22
New forms of family serve us in a challenging, changing world
The Christian Family: Pedagogical
Mode...................................John J. Boojamra................23
Parents play a crucial role in fostering the faith life of children
Family in "King Lear" and "A Thousand
Acres"...........................Ginger Grab.......................24
Shakespeare and Jane Smiley illuminate power dynamics and family dysfunction
QUOTATIONS ON FAMILY
In the Hebrew Scriptures [26]
In the New Testament Scriptures [27]
Leaders & Doctors [28]
Theologians, Scholars and Commentators [29]
Reflections on Family [inside back cover]
BOOKS ON FAMILY
Telling the Truth: Preaching about Sexual & Domestic
Violence by John S. McClure and Nancy J. Ramsey [30]
The Good Death: The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life by Marilyn Webb [31]
Good News! Sermons of Hope for Today's Families by Jeremiah Wright [32]
CONNECTIONS
James: Brother and Witness of
Jesus.............................................Bruce Chilton........................34
Family as
Covenant.......................................................................Blu
Greenberg.......................35
The Christian Family and the Household Codes...........Interview with Ann Holmes
Reading..............36
Leader's Guide for Adult Education.............................Ginger Grab and Judith Hoch
Wray..............38
One Preacher's Response to the Blessing of Same-Sex Unions........Christian T.
Losso..................41
The Family: Many Forms, Many Functions......................................Marvin
McMickle....................42
Family Picnic: Bible Stories for Everyone.........................................Craig
Anderson......................44
Preaching the
Lectionary................................................................Judith Hoch
Wray..................46
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