May-June Issue of HOMILETICS is Online

FYI, if you're a Homiletics subscriber, you'll find the next issue now online.

The cover story focuses on the Hagar-Ishmael allegory and is called COLD NEST MOTHERS. But there's a huge chunk of more great material. This issue looks at two books, too; one that's been out a while, The Art of Woo by G. Richard Shell and Mario Moussal, and one that's more recent and attracted a lot of attention in the secular press, The Year of Living Biblically, by A.J. Jacobs. Both of these treatments take us to th biblical text for the day in a way that will grab the attention, if not the hearts, of your congregation.

There's a look at a movie, too: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The text is the Great Commission in Matthew 28. We call it: "The Kingdom of the Crystal Commission." In this same installment you'll find a great commissioning litany written by 16-year old from Hinsdale, Illinois. The whole installment and this litany will work well for those of you commissioning youth people on upcoming mission trips, but could work with other contexts as well.

Favorites? I hate to say, but I love "Catching the Wind" for Pentecost Sunday which looks at harnassing wind where the wind is blowing, like 50,000 feet in the air. Sometimes, if the wind isn't blowing where you are, you've got to go to where the wind is blowing.

Another favorite is "Ballast in Your Bottom," a look at the research the robotic engineers are doing using turtles as a research subject. The problem with robots is that once they fall, they have a devil of a time getting back up. So, how do turtles do it? How do we get back up once we've fallen.

Anyway, take a look. It will get your homilietical juices going!