Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: Deceptively Simple, Deeply Subversive: John the Baptist, Politics and Religion, for Sunday, 12 July 2009; book review: The Indifferent Stars Above; The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by David James Brown (2009); film review: Ben X (2008, Belgium); poem review: Alone by Maya Angelou.