Oct 06, 2009

Vol. 126 No. 20

Cover Story

The good funeral

Recovering Christian practices

Oct 06, 2009 by Thomas G. Long

Cover Story

A family undertaking

Caring for our dead

Oct 06, 2009 by Holly Stevens

From the Editors

In it together

Obama challenges individualism

Oct 06, 2009

Editor's Desk

Graveside

The best and worst of ministry

Oct 06, 2009 by John M. Buchanan

Features

Mixed identities

Religious diversity in the U.K.

Oct 06, 2009 by Amy Frykholm

Features

Anglicans and others

The TLS's Rupert Shortt

Oct 06, 2009 by Amy Frykholm

Features

Truly global

Financing the ecumenical future

Oct 06, 2009 by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson

Living by the Word

Fullness of life

Hebrews 4:12-16; Mark 10:17-31

Oct 06, 2009 by Paul J. Wadell

Living by the Word

Heroic ambition

Hebrews 5:1-10; Mark 10:35-45

Oct 06, 2009 by Paul J. Wadell

Faith Matters

Pep-rally protest

Constructive nonconformity

Oct 06, 2009 by Kyle Childress

Notes from the Global Church

The Nestorian faithful

Assyrian and Chaldean churches

Oct 06, 2009 by Philip Jenkins

Century Marks

Oct 06, 2009

Books

Billy Graham, political operative

Oct 06, 2009 reviewed by John G. Turner

Books

Hope Endures/Finding Calcutta

Oct 06, 2009 reviewed by Jenell Williams Paris

Books

The Resurrection Effect: Transforming Christian Life and Thought

Oct 06, 2009 reviewed by Ian Curran

Books

Called to order

Oct 06, 2009

Film

Cold Souls

Oct 06, 2009 reviewed by John Petrakis

Film

Sin Nombre

Oct 06, 2009 reviewed by Darryl Caterine

Poetry

Gift

Oct 06, 2009 by Nancy Neiman-Hoffman

News

Swiss faith leaders oppose national ban on minarets

Issue will be decided in November referendum

Oct 06, 2009

News

Watchdog group tallies Christian right visits to White House

Bush's guests

Oct 06, 2009

News

Accused Baptist swindler sued for gambling debt

Allen Stanford

Oct 06, 2009

News

World Council of Churches urges stop to settlements, but Isreal moving ahead

Israeli policy "very hard to understand"

Oct 06, 2009

News

Poll finds more positive views of U.S. Muslims

Pew Forum findings

Oct 06, 2009

News

Zondervan to publish updated NIV Bible

Will discontinue Today's New International Version

Oct 06, 2009

News

Episcopal presiding bishop revisits 'salvation' speech

Jefferts Schori on the "great Western heresy"

Oct 06, 2009

News

Oldline Prostestant churches feeling their age

FACT survey results

Oct 06, 2009 by John Dart

News

Briefly noted

Oct 06, 2009

News

Russian patriarch wants former gulag turned into a spiritual center

Patriarch's grandfather was a prisoner there

Oct 06, 2009

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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