Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis
Companions in the Wilderness:
A Lenten Journey through Prose and Poetry
Led by Tom Kryder-Reid
Four Tuesdays: March 3, 10, 24, 31 • In the Parish Hall
Dinner 6:00 • Program 6:45-8:00
Dear ‘Companions in the Wilderness’ participants-
- Tuesday, April 14
- Tuesday, April 21
March 3 With Moses and Wanderers: Dynamics of Transition
William Bridges, “Getting Them Through the Wilderness” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (with guide for
John V. Hicks, “Ash Wednesday“
Mary Oliver, “Ropes“
March 10 With Psalmists and Strugglers: Pathos of the Journey
Psalms 88, 137, 130
Naomi Shihab Nye, “I Feel Sorry For Jesus“; “Kindness“
Nikki Giovanni, “The Artist“
March 17 Mid-Lent respite-class does not meet
April 14 With Jesus in his Passion
and Anthony Ray Hinton in his Prison: The Sun Does Shine*
Mark 11:1-19; 13:1 – 15:47
Anthony Ray Hinton (with Lara Love Hardin), The Sun Does Shine,
St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018 NOTE: A full book-begin reading early
John V. Hicks, “Meditation on an Empty Shore“
April 24 With the Godly and the Ungodly: The Son Does Shine
Fleming Rutledge, “Mrs Hammer, Mrs Durr, Brother Will and the word
of Faith,” Virginia Theological Seminary commencement, May 1999
Gregory Pappas, “Three Greek Orthodox Hierarchs
Who Tried to Stop the Holocaust in Their Country“
Mick Cochrane, “Last Lecture“
Patrick Kavanaugh, “A Lover’s Lenten Dream“
* Optional related reading: Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, Spiegel & Grau, 2014