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A Guide to the Sacraments, by John Macquarrie

reviewed by Thomas D. Parker
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Is America Breaking Apart? by John A. Hall and Charles Lindholm

reviewed by Rhys H Williams
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Ethics for the New Millennium, by the Dalai Lama

reviewed by Leo D. Lefebure
From the Editors

Ecumenical challenge: A new story for Protestants and Catholics

Feature

The cross as good news for women

The passion narrative is the story of a series of violations. Is it good for us to find our identity in it?

by A. Katherine Grieb

Feature

A Zapatista church: Presbyterians in Chiapas: Displaced and abandoned

by Mark Lewis Taylor
Faith Matters

Heart's home

by Roberta Bondi
M.E.M.O.

Fallibilities

by Martin E. Marty
Cover Story

Debating evolution: The God who would intervene: Religion meets science

by Larry Witham and Edward J. Larson

In the Lectionary

At table with the saints: 1 John 3:1-3

Would going to church make any difference in how you live—or die?

by Bruce K. Modahl

Books

The center and beyond

by Milton J Coalter

Books

Rendering Unto Caesar, by Anthony Gill, and Religious Politics in Latin America, by Brian H. Smith

reviewed by Philip Berryman
From the Editors

Sensational art: Shocked in Brooklyn

Feature

Violence and illness: Treating the mentally ill

by Anthony B. Robinson
Cover Story

Whatever happened to liberation theology? God's "option for the poor": God's "option for the poor"

by Nancy Bedford
Feature

Mainline faith, with passion: Cultural immersion of the good kind

by Kenneth W. Chalker

Faith Matters

God’s holiness

by L. Gregory Jones
M.E.M.O.

Buoyed up

by Martin E. Marty
Impressions

Refugees with dwindling rights

by James M. Wall

In the Lectionary

Why bother with Reformation? John 8:31-36

by Bruce K. Modahl