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Articles in August 14, 2002 issue of Christian Century

• UMC, Episcopalians launch dialogue
• West Africa refugees flee civil war
• Living by the word
  by William L. Hawkins
• Gays and the Bible: a response to Walter Wink
  by Robert A.J. Gagnon
• Time out: grieving, not retaliating, may be the best road to peace
  by John M. Buchanan
• Rescue of miners celebrated ecumenically
• The second of two United Methodist pastors from Seattle who risked their jobs by revealing their sexual orientations will be allowed to return to her pulpit
• Nursing my son on an August afternoon
  by Valerie Weaver-Zercher
• Looking smart
  by Martin E. Marty
• New funds boost NCC
  by John Dart
• Pope hails indigenous, but critics unimpressed
  by Paul Jeffrey
• The Evangelical Methodist Church of Uruguay has chosen native son Oscar Bolioli, a National Council of Churches official in New York, as its president
• Dames and dragons
  by Steve Vineberg
• Florida judge rules vouchers not legal
• A Secret Service agent who admitted writing anti-Muslim graffiti in the home of a terror suspect has been suspended by the Justice Department, an Islamic civil rights group reported July 25
• Just war divide: one tradition, two views
  by David P. Gushee
• Bombing a peace plan: while some Palestinian leaders call for an end to the suicide bombing, Sharon again shows he's a man of war
  by James M. Wall
• In the beginning
  by J. McIntosh
• Global gatherings for interfaith groups
• Sergio Carranza, the Episcopal bishop of Mexico, has accepted an invitation from Bishop Jon Bruno of Los Angeles to begin a new ministry as a bishop assistant in the heavily Latino diocese in southern California, starting in January
• Sunshine and shadows
  by John Petrakis
• Quote, unquote
• Church leaders decry South Asia arms race
• Suicide bombers: the `just war' debate, Islamic style
  by John Kelsay
• A reply by Walter Wink
• Taking vouchers to school: it remains unclear whether vouchers can help improve inner-city education
• No religion allowed in abstinence projects
• Two former generals from El Salvador have been ordered to pay $54.6 million in damages to three Salvadorans, one of them a church worker, after a jury decided that the men were responsible for security forces that tortured the Salvadorans during their cou
• Moderates unite? The future of Southern Baptist dissidents
  by Jim Jones
• Iraq: don't go there
  by George Hunsinger
• Bombing dashes hopes of Jackson delegation
• Queen Elizabeth visited a British mosque for the first time—and, like all other visitors, took her shoes off to do so
• Ivory Towers on Sand: Middle Eastern Studies in America
  by Thomas Idinopulos
• Century marks
• More high schoolers say they are virgins
• A Christian school for missionary children in Pakistan is evaluating its future after a band of masked gunmen stormed the compound on August 5, killing six adults but leaving the 150 students unharmed
• Take this job
  by L. Gregory Jones
• The coffin
  by Donald W. Baker
• VA accepts chaplains from gay denomination
• Rowan Williams, the Welsh cleric tabbed as the 104th archbishop of Canterbury, became an honorary white druid in a sunrise ceremony inside a circle of stones—and immediately sparked accusations from Church of England evangelicals that he was promotin
• A priest's tale
  by Christopher Elwood