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Articles in July 24, 2007 issue of Christian Century

• Unnecessary?
• Getting Cheney correct
• Paradise for pedophiles
  by Dean Peerman
• China repeats demands after Vatican overture
• Homegrown
  by Valerie Weaver-Zercher
• Where would Jesus bike
• UCC seeks faith-politics energy
• For the second time in as many years, President Bush vetoed a bill June 20 that would have expanded federal funding for embryonic stem cell research
• Paradise Mislaid: How We Lost Heaven—and How We Can Regain It
  by Mark Ralls
• Cell group: held hostage in Iraq
  by James Loney
• On not mimicking the religious right
  by Jan G. Linn
• Happy pursuits: a Christian vision of the good life
  by Ellen T. Charry
• Atheism redux
  by Martin E. Marty
• Give it a rest
• Faith conservatives cheered by high court rulings
• Filipino festival
• Living by the word: treasure chest
  by Kenneth H. Carter, Jr.
• Beknighted
• The pastor details his hunch about the cross
  by David Wright
• Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life
  by Sarah Morice Brubaker
• Bridging the racial divide
• It was then a question of making socialism more human
  by Heino Falcke
• Racial, multicultural tensions still beset Unitarian Universalists
• Captive and free: spiritual life in an East German prison
  by Wolf Krotke
• Ex-gay movement …
  by Nancy Wilson
• Authority figures: advice to new clergy: be pastoral, then prophetic
  by John M. Buchanan
• Evangelical Covenant Church adds voice on care of environment
• Prophet without honor
• Yale's Brevard Childs, biblical scholar, dies
• Living by the word: off the treadmill
  by Kenneth H. Carter, Jr.
• Missionary position
• Principled, not partisan, politics
  by Jim Wallis
• TV ministry: not just for big-name preachers anymore
  by Deborah Potter
• Naming the dead
  by Barbara Brown Taylor
• The Internet, gay sex and the surgeon general nominee
  by Jason Byassee
• Texas pastor Dwight McKissic, who has been at the center of a debate in the Southern Baptist Convention over speaking in tongues, has resigned as a trustee of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
• Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England
• Two Canada churches reject same-sex rites
• It's good to have a good God
  by Marion Barry
• Israel and the land
  by John Hubers
• Batting for Jesus
• Better than 666
• Nothing: Something to Believe In
• American Baptists, Cooperative Baptists celebrate their links
• A federal court in Pennsylvania has ruled that Sameh Khouzam, a 38-year-old Coptic Christian who feared torture if he was returned to Egypt, will be allowed to stay in the U.S. indefinitely
• Learning again
• A 10-year-old Nepalese girl has lost her title as a Hindu living goddess because she left the country to promote a film
• Mighty heart, weak drama
  by Steve Vineberg