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Articles in July 15, 2008 issue of Christian Century

• Survey finds Americans flexible on faith tenets and interpretations
• Like a child: reflections on a mission trip
  by Gordon Atkinson
• Speaking of rosaries
• Bible Society ends contract with president
• Nuclear distraction
• The Americanist: an interview with Ken Burns
  by Timothy Larsen
• High anxiety: dealing with critics
  by Margaret B. Hess
• Don't blame ethanol…
  by May Pomeroy
• Chaplaincy standards …
  by Elizabeth Kelly
• Market values
  by Martin E. Marty
• Running out of gas
• Not appealing
• Failing on human rights: China watcher Sophie Richardson
  by Amy Frykholm
• To tell the truth
• The question
  by Sofia M. Starnes
• From Stone to Living Word: Letting the Bible Live Again
  by Anitra Kitts
• Fundamentalists regain Southern Baptist presidency
• Faith in the media
• A lens into souls…
  by Joan W. Semenuk
• Disciples not afraid …
  by Douglas Taylor-Weiss
• [Cartoon]
• The nation's Roman Catholic bishops have approved, by a vote of 191 to 1, a policy statement condemning embryonic stem cell research
• Prescription denied
• Transformed
  by Ian Curran
• Who's the happiest?
• Fuller Theological Seminary, reputed to be the largest nondenominational U.S. seminary, feted its biggest-ever graduating class June 14 with 502 receiving degrees, topping last year's previous high of 483 graduates, at the main campus in Pasadena, Califor
• Insurance policy
• Unbelievable
• Minor classics
  by Brian Doyle
• God and Globalization: Volume 4, Globalization and Grace
  by Stephen Healey
• The Politics of Heaven: America in Fearful Times
  by Anne Blue Wills
• Naming God
  by Stephen Walach
• The other Jewish lobby
  by James M. Wall
• Episcopal dioceses vary on same-sex rite policies
• Mainline shows shift to Democrats
  by John Dart
• Canada apologizes for abuse at church-run aboriginal schools
• Reflections on the lectionary
  by Margaret B. Guenther
• The world comes to Qatar: Interfaith conversations in an Arab land
  by Leo D. Lefebure
• My facebook friends
  by L. Gregory Jones
• Christian Reformed Church elects a woman as vice president
• The Norwegian parliament, disregarding objections from some of the nation's churches, has overwhelmingly approved legislation giving same-sex couples the right to marry and to adopt children on an equal basis with heterosexual couples
• Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, which serves 2,100 students in four locations, making it the fifth largest seminary in the U.S., announced that Dennis P. Hollinger will be its next president
• Bird of a feather
• Special Orders: Poems
  by Jeffrey Johnson
• V. Gene Robinson
• Family squabbles
  by John M. Buchanan
• Going up
• John H. P. Reumann
• Roman de Gare
  by John Petrakis