Aug 10, 2004

Vol. 121 No. 16

Cover Story

Dying to get in

Crisis on the Mexican border

Aug 10, 2004 by Rick Ufford-Chase

From the Editors

The health-care gap

Both Bush's and Kerry's plans are inadequate

Aug 10, 2004

Editor's Desk

Evangelical imperative

Kindness, forbearance, grace

Aug 10, 2004 by John M. Buchanan

Features

President Bush and immigration reform

The real problem

Aug 10, 2004 by Rick Ufford-Chase

Features

China syndrome

The persecution of Falun Gong

Aug 10, 2004 by Dean Peerman

Features

The Episcopal middle

Listening to congregations

Aug 10, 2004 by William Sachs

Living by the Word

Off the record

Luke 13:10-17

Aug 10, 2004 by Teresa Berger

Living by the Word

Disturbing the peace

Luke 12:49-56

Aug 10, 2004 by Teresa Berger

Faith Matters

Campus tour

The university of all things

Aug 10, 2004 by Carol Zaleski

M.E.M.O.

Thank God for the secular

Thank God for religious freedoms

Aug 10, 2004 by Martin E. Marty

Century Marks

Aug 10, 2004

Books

Sexuality and Holy Longing: Embracing Intimacy in a Broken World

Aug 10, 2004 reviewed by Melissa Jenks

Books

Reading the Bible in the Strange World of Medicine

Aug 10, 2004 reviewed by Joseph Kotva

Books

Do-gooder dilemma

Aug 10, 2004 reviewed by Victoria Barnett

Books

Nazi Christians

Aug 10, 2004 reviewed by Tom Aitken

Books

Coming Out in Christianity: Religion, Identity and Community

Aug 10, 2004 reviewed by R. Stephen Warner

Film

Recurring nightmare

Aug 10, 2004 reviewed by John Petrakis

Poetry

All the news

Aug 10, 2004 by Sharron Singleton

Poetry

Lacunae

Aug 10, 2004 by Nola Garrett

Poetry

On the airplane someone else sleeps

Aug 10, 2004 by Cleo Griffith

News

Presbyterians try to mend Jewish ties

Divestment plans, support of messianic Jews caused tension

Aug 10, 2004

News

Missionary recall for American Baptists?

Financial troubles

Aug 10, 2004

News

Briefly noted

Aug 10, 2004

News

Marriage amendment may rise again

Earlier attempt failed procedural vote

Aug 10, 2004

News

IRS: Church directory politics carries risks

Bush-Cheney defends legality of strategy

Aug 10, 2004

News

Protestants may lose majority status

Family size, immigration are factors

Aug 10, 2004

News

Unclear bankruptcy rules challenge Catholics and Disciples

Nonprofit status may help determine legal precedents

Aug 10, 2004

News

Coalition urges end to youth executions

In Roper v. Simmons

Aug 10, 2004

News

Study: Student debt hurts new pastors

Average debt of $25,000

Aug 10, 2004 by John Dart

News

Seminary denies that Schuller is ignored

Crystal Cathedral pastor claims he's been shunned

Aug 10, 2004

News

Anglicans establish theological prize

The Michael Ramsey Prize for theological writing

Aug 10, 2004

News

LCMS reelects its president

Kieschnick holds on

Aug 10, 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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