Mar 11, 2008

Vol. 125 No. 5

Cover Story

Neighborhood presence

Innovative urban ministry

Mar 11, 2008 by Jason Byassee

Cover Story

The church downtown

Strategies for urban ministry

Mar 11, 2008 by Jason Byassee

From the Editors

False witnesses

A plea for truth telling

Mar 11, 2008

Editor's Desk

Doors open to the city

The privilege of serving downtown

Mar 11, 2008 by John M. Buchanan

Features

Shopping for justice

The trouble with good intentions

Mar 11, 2008 by Charles M. North and Bob Smietana

Features

Climate of care

Pastoral ministry to gays and lesbians

Mar 11, 2008 by John Hobbs

Features

Nation in peril

Dispatch from Kabul

Mar 11, 2008 by Chris Herlinger

Features

Family ties

Reading the story of the prodigal son in Turkey

Mar 11, 2008 by Ryan Keating

Living by the Word

Holy irony

Matthew 26:14–27:66

Mar 11, 2008 by Frederick Niedner

Living by the Word

Rejoice, believers

Colossians 3:1-4; Matthew 28:1-10

Mar 11, 2008 by Frederick Niedner

Faith Matters

Second thoughts

Truth and misconception

Mar 11, 2008 by Maggi Dawn

M.E.M.O.

All in the cortex

"My DNA made me do it"

Mar 11, 2008 by Martin E. Marty

Century Marks

Mar 11, 2008

Books

Falling Man

Mar 11, 2008 reviewed by Gordon Houser

Books

The Colorful Apocalypse

Mar 11, 2008 reviewed by Arthur E. Farnsley II

Books

BookMarks

Mar 11, 2008

Books

Isaiah as the 'fifth Gospel'

Mar 11, 2008 reviewed by Walter Brueggemann

Books

Journey into Islam

Mar 11, 2008 reviewed by William E. Lesher

Books

Why Liberal Churches Are Growing

Mar 11, 2008 reviewed by Martha Grace Reese

Film

Nanking

Mar 11, 2008 reviewed by Steve Vineberg

Poetry

Easter's ABCs

Mar 11, 2008 by Nola Garrett

Poetry

Peter wept

Mar 11, 2008 by Terry Minchow-Proffitt

Poetry

Another Lent

Mar 11, 2008 by Barrie Shepherd

News

Deaths

Mar 11, 2008

News

Briefly noted

Mar 11, 2008

News

Rowan Williams's remarks on Islamic law spark furor

"Misleading choice of words"

Mar 11, 2008

News

Methodists to consider divestment plans: Jews decry 'anti-Israel' path

Caterpillar holdings under consideration

Mar 11, 2008

News

Muslims wish Obama would be more positive about Islam

Reaction to candidate's response to rumors

Mar 11, 2008

News

Huckabee: Critics dwell on his pastor past

"A small, arcane part of my biography"

Mar 11, 2008

News

Political affliations of evangelicals shift

A more even distribution

Mar 11, 2008

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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