Mar 24, 2009

Vol. 126 No. 6

Cover Story

Bell's appeal

Ministry to young adults

Mar 24, 2009 by Debra Bendis

Cover Story

Gen-Next preacher

Chatting with Rob Bell

Mar 24, 2009 by Debra Bendis

From the Editors

Spending habits

The defense budget

Mar 24, 2009

Editor's Desk

Creative invocation

In that holy name

Mar 24, 2009 by John M. Buchanan

Features

Housekeepers

Hotel workers organize

Mar 24, 2009 by Amy Frykholm

Features

Worldviews

Walter Mead on foreign policy

Mar 24, 2009

Features

Counting the cost

Congregations in the recession

Mar 24, 2009 by John Dart

Features

Updike's passions

Religion, sex, art

Mar 24, 2009 by Jeff Johnson

Living by the Word

Reality check

Isaiah 50:4-9a; Philippians 2:5-11; Mark 11:1-11; 14:1–15:47

Mar 24, 2009 by Susan Andrews

Living by the Word

Suffering and salvation

Jeremiah 31:31-34; Psalm 51:1-12; John 12:20-33

Mar 24, 2009 by Susan Andrews

Faith Matters

Fool-osophy

Gracefull thought

Mar 24, 2009 by Richard J. Mouw

Notes from the Global Church

When South is North

Familiar faith of ordinary people

Mar 24, 2009 by Philip Jenkins

Century Marks

Mar 24, 2009

Books

Addicted to sex

Mar 24, 2009 reviewed by Valerie Weaver-Zercher

Books

Preachers and Misfits, Prophets and Thieves: The Minister in Southern Fiction

Mar 24, 2009 reviewed by Eugene Winkler

Books

Back to Darwin: A Richer Account of Evolution

Mar 24, 2009 reviewed by Carl Keener

Books

Sacramental Life: Spiritual Formation Through the Book of Common Prayer

Mar 24, 2009 reviewed by Julie Lane-Gay

Film

Wendy and Lucy

Mar 24, 2009 reviewed by John Petrakis

Music

On music

Mar 24, 2009 reviewed by Louis R. Carlozo

Poetry

The book

Mar 24, 2009 by Jean Janzen

Poetry

Spring 1964

Mar 24, 2009 by Diane G. Scholl

Poetry

How it comes this time

Mar 24, 2009 by Meredith A. Cargill

News

Encyclopedia project stirs heated argument

The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization

Mar 24, 2009 by John Dart

News

People

Mar 24, 2009

News

Briefly noted

Mar 24, 2009

News

Media CEO creates London bus signs affirming God

"There is a God. Don't worry."

Mar 24, 2009

News

Poverty Forum hopes to shape White House goals

A bipartisan group of Christian leaders

Mar 24, 2009

News

Science group boycotts New Orleans over law on science teaching

The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

Mar 24, 2009

News

New York Catholics get an affable archbishop

Steven Avella of Milwaukee

Mar 24, 2009

News

ELCA again 'disappoints' Missouri Synod Lutherans

Recommendations on gay and lesbian clergy

Mar 24, 2009

News

Lutheran panel proposes road map to permit partnered gay clergy

A four-step process

Mar 24, 2009

News

High Court rules against sectarian park monument

Summum of Salt Lake City

Mar 24, 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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