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Articles in May 31, 2005 issue of Christian Century

• There ought to be a law
• The good die young—again.
• And the winner is
• A federal judge has ordered a Maryland school district to revise its sex education curriculum after he said it seemed to favor religions that take a positive view of homosexuality
• The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes
  by Carl Keener
• Collared
  by A.K.M. Adam
• 1920 Ad
  by Scott Williams
• Lesbian reinstated; bishop to appeal case
• Poor no more: strategies of global development
  by Bill McKibben
• What society needs…
  by Ian Curran
• Hazardous-waste roundup
• Sabbath resistance
  by Barbara Brown Taylor
• Orthodox depose Holy Land patriarch.
• Preach it
  by John M. Buchanan
• Term limit
• As good as dead
  by Felipe N. Martinez
• Woman to succeed Perry as head of MCC
• Lillian, Althea, Hattie, Zada
  by Nola Garrett
• God's power …
  by Brent Reynolds
• As we forgive our debtors
• Survey finds more megachurches than expected
• Back pages
  by Gordon Marino
• Nothing to boast of
  by Gilbert Meilaender
• Are we there yet? The route from suffering to hope can be a very winding road
  by Felipe N. Martinez
• Seminary enrollment trends upward
• Nellie Moser
• Pondering providence …
  by Stephen H. Webb
• The state lakes at Alexandria
  by Larsen Bowker
• Ousting of editor viewed as ominous.
• Plans were announced this month for African-American men, women and children to travel to Washington for a massive October 15 rally on the National Mall
• Calvinist reaction
• Methodists OK sharing communion with ELCA and Episcopal Church
• Christians in Pakistan declared on April 11 that they oppose a recent government decision to restore the placement of data about the religious identity of citizens in passports—less than a year after the practice was halted
• Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham
  by Donald G. Bloesch
• Courage to respond
  by Samuel Wells
• Symphonic truth: Von Balthasar and Christian humanism
  by Edgardo Antonio Colon-Emeric
• U.S. archbishop named as doctrinal guardian
• Baylor University
• Video ventures
  by Kent A. Meyer
• Book of the Year
• Southern Baptists pull back from 'Free Speech' bill
• Out of control
• Canadian Anglicans reduce role at council
• Yale Divinity School celebrated the life and ministry of William Sloane Coffin Jr. with a two-day event at the end of last month
• Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics
  by Gayle Gerber Koontz
• Bush, 'proud Methodist,' opens a door
  by John Dart
• Coming clean
  by Martin E. Marty
• Baptist pastor quits after political dispute
• Luther Seminary
• Choices of youth
  by Steve Vineberg
• Big questions
• Cruel and unusual punishment