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Articles in July 31, 2002 issue of Christian Century

• Praying for Sarah: when death is a blessing
  by Jerry Gentry
• Lutheran Hour host off air in LCMS tiff
• Hampton University Ministers' Conference. . University Ministers' Conference
• The three R's of urban mission
  by Miroslav Volf
• Rowan Williams named Anglican leader
  by John Dart
• Orthodox Church in America picks leader
• Siding with grace
  by Cynthia A. Jarvis
• A future in crime?
  by John Petrakis
• Century marks
• Evangelicals ask Bush for even Mideast tack
• Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas recently converted to Catholicism in a quiet ceremony
• The liberal choice: Adam Smith or FDR?
  by Patrick Neal
• Name that God
  by Martin E. Marty
• Paved with good intentions: the politics of national service
  by Douglas A. Hicks
• Pope places possible successor in Milan
• Chaim Potok, whose first three novels about Orthodox Jewish life propelled him into the best-selling ranks, died July 23 at his suburban Philadelphia home in Merion at age 73
• Christ with fish
  by Rosalind Sutkowski
• Rumor of war
• Two black churches talk about merging
• Tension between Orthodox Christians and religious minorities is rising in the former Soviet republic of Georgia despite calls from local and U.S. politicians for a halt to religious violence
• Bomb fragment
  by J. Barrie Shepherd
• Isaac's sacrifice …
  by Susan Fiore
• Sabbath poem II, 1995
  by Wendell Berry
• Church of England to permit remarriage
• Gaza attack
• A passion for progress
• Quote, unquote
  by Carlton W. Veazey
• Canadian Lutherans elect woman bishop
• Midwife's tale
  by Cynthia A. Jarvis
• Napoleon's return
  by Steve Vineberg
• All church is local
  by John M. Buchanan
• Girl in pledge case is Christian, says mom
• An apology by the Irish Republican Army for killing and maiming noncombatants during its 30-year campaign has been welcomed by church leaders in Northern Ireland
• Church market: investigating in congregations
  by Donald A. Luidens
• Inverted ethics …
  by Kent A. Meyer
• Church-related investors seek ethical clarity
• The Prayer of Jabez, the best-selling book by Bruce H. Wilkinson, has been named the Christian Book of the Year for an unprecedented second consecutive year by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association
• Singer's point
  by Joyce P. Regier
• Catholic reform group lacks conservatives
  by Jeffrey R. MacDonald
• The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod has made one of the largest budget cuts in the denomination's history, setting a budget for the fiscal year that began July 1 that is $10 million less than the current one
• Wee hours
  by Jeanne Murray Walker
• Wiesel's leadership …
  by Brian McCarthy