Jun 14, 2005

Vol. 122 No. 12

From the Editors

Fear not

An alternative to the politics of fear

Jun 14, 2005

Editor's Desk

Holy contention

The freedom to raise questions

Jun 14, 2005 by John M. Buchanan

Features

Can we be friends?

Pastor-parish relationships

Jun 14, 2005 by Lillian Daniel

Features

Broken and shared

Worship: Act four

Jun 14, 2005 by Samuel Wells

Features

Let’s talk about sex

Challenging the hook-up ethos

Jun 14, 2005 by Donna Freitas

Features

End of days

NBC's 'Revelations'

Jun 14, 2005 by Sarah Morice Brubaker

Features

Crusades revisited

'Kingdom of Heaven'

Jun 14, 2005 by Timothy Renick

Living by the Word

Slave wages

Romans 6:12-23; Matthew 10:40-42

Jun 14, 2005 by Bill O’Brien

Living by the Word

Dying to live

Romans 6:1b-11; Matthew 10:24-39

Jun 14, 2005 by Bill O’Brien

Faith Matters

The gift of infertility

From despair to celebration

Jun 14, 2005 by Miroslav Volf

Impressions

Double vision

Missing in the Newsweek fuss: historical perspective

Jun 14, 2005 by James M. Wall

M.E.M.O.

Open season

Surviving church conferences

Jun 14, 2005 by Martin E. Marty

Century Marks

Jun 14, 2005

Books

Setting it right

Jun 14, 2005 reviewed by Douglas Harink

Books

Unnatural virtue

Jun 14, 2005 reviewed by William H. Willimon

Books

Telling your own story

Jun 14, 2005 reviewed by Betty Smartt Carter

Books

Catching Light

Jun 14, 2005 reviewed by William D. Romanowski

Books

The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited

Jun 14, 2005 reviewed by Mark A. Chancey

Film

Space opera finale

Jun 14, 2005 reviewed by John Petrakis

Music

Sound alternatives

Jun 14, 2005 reviewed by Louis R. Carlozo

Poetry

Crutch

Jun 14, 2005 by Sydney Lea

Poetry

Black fire on white fire

Jun 14, 2005 by Sarah Rossiter

Poetry

Waiting

Jun 14, 2005 by Rina Terry

News

Bush won’t budge on stem cells

Hard line could backfire

Jun 14, 2005 by Religion News Service

News

People

Jun 14, 2005

News

Anglicans, Catholics find common ground on Mary

Role model and Christ's foremost disciple

Jun 14, 2005 by Religion News Service and Ecumenical News International

News

French philosopher Paul Ricoeur dies at 92

Studied how people overcome doubts by drawing on spiritual heritage

Jun 14, 2005

News

Hundreds of Christian leaders see new unity

Conference on World Mission and Evangelism

Jun 14, 2005 by Religion News Service

News

Qur'an abuse story roils Islamic World

Anti-American riots

Jun 14, 2005

News

Anti-Muslim incidents up 49 percent in U.S.

Harassment, violence, discrimination

Jun 14, 2005

News

UCC delegates to consider divestment

Economic pressure

Jun 14, 2005

News

Bush cites scripture to Calvin College grads

"Love your neighbor as yourself"

Jun 14, 2005

News

Advocacy group ends long Disney boycott

Cause lost on "crowded cultural battlefield"

Jun 14, 2005

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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