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Articles in June 17, 2008 issue of Christian Century

• Talk to Iran
• Strange bedfellows
• ELCA bishop calls for immigration reform
• Chicago Theological Seminary
• Failing Christianity
  by Barbara Brown Taylor
• Ronald
  by Martin E. Marty
• Muslim after all?
• People aren't good at doing things they dislike
  by Barney Frank
• Bishop calls on Kansas governor to stop taking communion
• Reflections on the lectionary
  by Evan Drake Howard
• Creation and Covenant: The Significance of Sexual Difference in the Moral Theology of Marriage
  by Jason Byassee
• Rosenstock-Huessy fans …
  by Peter W. Bakken
• Post-Baptist?
• IRS ends probe of UCC on Obama talk, clears pastor on Huckabee endorsement
• China quake relief
• Baptism by Rembrandt's prints
  by Kathy Coffey
• Justice seekers …
  by Charline Watts
• Prayer request
• [There is a] pain in the tummy of every African American that has not been articulated
  by Desmond Tutu
• Canadian Lutherans ordain gay man in same-sex marriage
• Joyce "Dottie" Rambo
• Not Ashamed of the Gospel: Sermons from Paul's Letter to the Romans
  by James C. Howell
• Where hell is real
• First call: from seminary to parish
  by William H. Willimon
• Colorful cathedral
• Eight points about Iran's nuclear program
  by David Cortright
• Book marks
• Who believes in hell
• Pastoral practice
  by Donald B. Myrom
• Out with the new
• Protestant groups join Episcopal fight over church properties
• Many South Africans were shocked by a wave of violence last month directed against foreigners—many of them Zimbabweans seeking refuge from their nation's turmoil—living in poorer areas around Johannesburg
• Candles waking
  by Paul Willis
• Easter metaphors …
  by Paul P. Krueger
• Seeing double
• Dishonorable degrees
• Aid groups feel the pinch of rising food and gas prices
• Victor "Vic" Jameson
• Liberty as a Christian value
  by Timothy Renick
• Outside the gates
• Executive perspective: an interview with Clifton Kirkpatrick
  by John Dart
• McCain rejects support of pastors Hagee and Parsley
• Inside Iran: first-person encounters
  by Richard A. Kauffman
• Native Guard
  by Jeff Johnson
• [Cartoon]
• Extraterrestrial beings
• Millipede
  by Kathleen L. Housley
• Union Theological Seminary in New York has awarded degrees to 104 students, its largest graduating class since 1992
• Waiting for the Mahdi: Jesus and the Shi'a savior
  by Thomas Finger
• Son of Rambow
  by John Petrakis
• Conversation on race
  by John M. Buchanan
• No lone Christians
• The pastor behind the gay marriage ruling
  by John Dart
• A disastrous cyclone in Myanmar, a high-intensity earthquake in China and a series of tornados through the U.S. mid-section hit within days of each other in May, prompting outgoing stated clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick and another top Presbyterian Church exec
• Kingdom come: the public meaning of the Gospels
  by N.T. Wright
• Mortal fears
  by James M. Wall