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Dec 30, 2008

Vol. 125 No. 26
Cover Story

What's changed?

Obama and race in America

Dec 30, 2008 by Gerald Early, Susan M. Glisson, Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Melvin Bray and Chris Rice
From the Editors

William Placher, 1948-2008

In memoriam
Dec 30, 2008
From the Editors

Blockade

The siege of Gaza
Dec 30, 2008
Features

Visions of amen

Olivier Messiaen's transcendent music
Dec 30, 2008 by David Hoekema
Features

Listening to Messiaen

Recommended recordings
Dec 30, 2008 by David Hoekema
Features

Financial collapse

Lessons from the Social Gospel
Dec 30, 2008 by Gary Dorrien
Features

A is for availability

A theological dictionary
Dec 30, 2008 by Martin E. Marty
Features

The cruelest month

December losses

Dec 30, 2008 by Norman B. Bendroth
Living by the Word

In the waters

Genesis 1:1-5, Mark 1:4-11

Dec 30, 2008 by Frank M. Yamada
Living by the Word

An embodied ideal

Jeremiah 31:7-14; John 1:(1-9), 10-18

Dec 30, 2008 by Frank M. Yamada
Faith Matters

Incredible story?

More than a relic
Dec 30, 2008 by L. Gregory Jones
Notes from the Global Church

Egypt's Coptic Christians

Survival over centuries
Dec 30, 2008 by Philip Jenkins
Century Marks

Century Marks

Voices of 2008
Dec 30, 2008
Books

Mormon ghosts

Dec 30, 2008 reviewed by Matthew Avery Sutton
Books

God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question—Why We Suffer

Dec 30, 2008 reviewed by William H. Willimon
Film

Doubt

Dec 30, 2008 reviewed by John Petrakis
News

Deaths

Dec 30, 2008
News

Disney corrupts kids, top British Catholic says

Products encourage greed
Dec 30, 2008
News

Briefly noted

Dec 30, 2008
News

Discoveries continue at Herod's desert palace

Monarch likely buried atop complex
Dec 30, 2008
News

Global Christian leaders censure Africans for failures in Zimbabwe

Catastrophe growing worse
Dec 30, 2008
News

Report suggests CIA covered up details related to missionary death

Multiple planes shot down
Dec 30, 2008
News

Despite money woes, report urges U.S. to boost world antipoverty efforts

Need especially urgent now
Dec 30, 2008
News

Huckabee: Neglected 'value voters' key to GOP's future

Dec 30, 2008
News

Rival Anglican church body forms for North America

Unhappy with "liberal turn"
Dec 30, 2008
News

Religious clout often elusive in 2008

God not on the ballot
Dec 30, 2008