Jun 15, 2004

Vol. 121 No. 12

Cover Story

Sacred spaces

Jun 15, 2004 reviewed by Gretchen Buggeln

Cover Story

Sanctified unions

An argument for gay marriage

Jun 15, 2004 by Eugene F. Rogers Jr.

From the Editors

Changing the subject

Unity in the midst of strife

Jun 15, 2004

Editor's Desk

Edifice complex?

Sublime architecture

Jun 15, 2004 by John M. Buchanan

Features

Overcompensation

CEOs and corporate greed

Jun 15, 2004 by William J. McDonough

Features

Let's talk theology

How divided are United Methodists?

Jun 15, 2004 by O. Wesley Allen Jr.

Features

Rational choice

Why monotheism makes sense

Jun 15, 2004 by Sara Miller

Living by the Word

More than enough

Galatians 5:1, 13-25

Jun 15, 2004 by Samuel Wells

Living by the Word

Name that fear

Luke 8:26-39

Jun 15, 2004 by Samuel Wells

Faith Matters

Time out for Allah

The Hamtranck controversy

Jun 15, 2004 by Carol Zaleski

M.E.M.O.

Year of the locust

The dangerous number 17

Jun 15, 2004 by Martin E. Marty

Century Marks

Jun 15, 2004

Books

Uneasy partners

Jun 15, 2004 reviewed by Lillian Daniel

Books

Marriage and Modernization: How Globalization Threatens Marriage and What to Do About It

Jun 15, 2004 reviewed by Victoria Barnett

Books

An Annotated Anthology of Hymns

Jun 15, 2004 reviewed by Rebecca Slough

Film

Without gods

Jun 15, 2004 reviewed by John Petrakis

Poetry

Please grant mercy, Ella Webb!

Jun 15, 2004 by Saul Bennett

Poetry

Praise is a language

Jun 15, 2004 by Jeff Gundy

Poetry

If God is your answer

Jun 15, 2004 by Warren L. Molton

Poetry

The well

Jun 15, 2004 by Steve Lautermilch

Poetry

Like rocks

Jun 15, 2004 by John Forbis, OHC

News

Shameful images stir painful reflections

Abu Ghraib

Jun 15, 2004

News

Church leaders, UN chief discuss Iraq

Greater UN involvement needed

Jun 15, 2004

News

Texas flip-flop: UUA is church after all

Unitarian Universalists win tax exemption

Jun 15, 2004

News

Unitarians in midst of gay wedding marathon

In Massachusetts

Jun 15, 2004

News

Bishop warns city on 'cooperation with evil'

Gay marriage in Worchester, Massachusetts

Jun 15, 2004

News

Rising belief in hell, angels, heaven, devil

A Gallup poll

Jun 15, 2004

News

Catholic Democrats assail some bishops

Communion ban "deeply hurtful"

Jun 15, 2004

News

Data bite

Religious radio stations

Jun 15, 2004

News

Pastor resigns after admitting plagiarism

Sermons found on the Internet

Jun 15, 2004

News

Lesbian minister to remain on leave

Karen Dammann

Jun 15, 2004

News

Christians in India cheer election results

Secularists prevail

Jun 15, 2004

News

Briefly noted

Jun 15, 2004

News

People

Jun 15, 2004

When bad theology happens to good people

May 21, 2013 by MaryAnn McKibben Dana

The hospice pastor with a church on life support

How can we move beyond our walls when our congregations need so much care?

May 20, 2013 by Carol Howard Merritt

Cover Story

Embrace & abandonment

A pastor and a poet talk about God

May 29, 2013 Matt Fitzgerald and Christian Wiman

Remembering Will Campbell

Jun 06, 2013 by Frank G. Honeycutt

Notes from the Global Church

Armenia’s survivors

Jun 06, 2013 by Philip Jenkins

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