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Dec 01, 2009

Vol. 126 No. 24
Cover Story

Calvin's comeback?

The irresistible Reformer

Dec 01, 2009 by J. Todd Billings
From the Editors

News stand

Reporting requires revenue
Dec 01, 2009
Editor's Desk

The Niebuhr connection

His history with our magazine
Dec 01, 2009 by John M. Buchanan
Features

Bullish about books

Social entreprenuer John Wood
Dec 01, 2009 by Katie Redding
Features

This American mess

Where is Reinhold Niebuhr when we need him?
Dec 01, 2009 by Andrew Finstuen
Features

The way to justice

How my mind has changed

Dec 01, 2009 by Nicholas Wolterstorff
Features

Dear John

Your Gospel does not meet our current needs
Dec 01, 2009 by William H. Willimon
Living by the Word

Mountains and more mountains

Baruch 5:1-9; Luke 3:1-6

Dec 01, 2009 by Elizabeth Myer Boulton
Living by the Word

A midwife to all the nations

Luke 3:7-18; Zephaniah 3:14-20

Dec 01, 2009 by Elizabeth Myer Boulton
Faith Matters

Kept awake by love

The prophetic voices of Advent
Dec 01, 2009 by Stephanie Paulsell
Notes from the Global Church

BRICs of faith

Religion and the four emerging powers
Dec 01, 2009 by Philip Jenkins
Century Marks

Century Marks

Dec 01, 2009
Books

The Wright way to read Paul

Dec 01, 2009 reviewed by Douglas Harink
Books

A heart for teaching

Dec 01, 2009 reviewed by Shirley H. Showalter
Books

On Thinking Institutionally

Dec 01, 2009 reviewed by Michael Jinkins
Books

Life Among the Lutherans

Dec 01, 2009 reviewed by Nadia Bolz-Weber
Books

Be Not Anxious: Pastoral Care of Disquieted Souls

Dec 01, 2009 reviewed by Arthur Paul Boers
Film

The Invention of Lying

Dec 01, 2009 reviewed by John Petrakis
Poetry

"And the angel left her"

Dec 01, 2009 by Angela Alaimo O'Donnell
News

Female bishop will lead German Protestants

First woman and youngest person to serve as chair
Dec 01, 2009
News

Vatican defends its investigation of U.S. nuns and religious orders

An "effort to promote the Catholic identity"
Dec 01, 2009
News

Peripatetic patriarch visits Washington, White House

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Dec 01, 2009
News

Calvin College agrees to study faculty limits on gay-rights advocacy

A matter of academic freedom
Dec 01, 2009
News

Law signed extending hate crime protections

Obama adds sexual orientation and gender identity as protected categories
Dec 01, 2009
News

On hot-button issues, UCC is anything but reserved

"Jesus was not about excluding people"
Dec 01, 2009
News

Religious conservatives cheer ballot wins

Some observers find outcomes mixed
Dec 01, 2009
News

When depression leads pastors to suicide

One out of four pastors is depressed
Dec 01, 2009
News

Deaths

Dec 01, 2009
News

Briefly noted

Dec 01, 2009