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Articles in August 26, 2008 issue of Christian Century

• Defending stein …
  by Harry Yates
• A democratic Jonah
• Deceptive advertising
• Blurred lines
• Court upholds ruling against council member's Jesus-specific prayers
• Baylor regents remove president over failure to unify factions
• Faith groups work with UN to limit arms trade
• A Christian college in Colorado that requires students to attend chapel and staff to affirm that the Bible is "infallible" should be allowed to receive state scholarship funds, the Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver has ruled
• Dust and ashes.
  by Bruce van Voorst
• Anger: Discovering Your Spiritual Ally
  by Anthony B. Robinson
• Conspire
  by Lil Copan
• Muslim issue is 'no-win' for him, says Obama
• Nine faith leaders have joined to urge senators Barack Obama and John McCain to present a ten-year plan to combat poverty at their nominating conventions
• The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church elected a California pastor as its first female bishop at the denomination's 48th quadrennial General Conference in Atlanta
• Giving to religious charities and congregations passed the $100 billion mark for the first time in 2007, according to a recent report by the Giving USA Foundation
• Pope Benedict XVI met victims of clergy sexual abuse at the end of his visit to Australia on July 21, celebrating an early morning mass at St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney with two male and two female abuse victims
• Out of darkness
  by Stephanie Paulsell
• On music
  by Louis R. Carlozo
• The road taken
  by Martin E. Marty
• Taking awe breaks
  by John M. Buchanan
• Unprepared leaders
  by Dave Hawbecker
• Hope for all …
  by Isaac Kreutzer
• Revelations in Iowa
• Up against a brick wall
• Gas prices driving you buggy?
• Familiar refrain
• True believers
• Loaves and fishes
• Transitions
• This, perhaps above all, is how George Bush should be remembered
  by Eugene Robinson
• When a coffeehouse chain becomes a default option for people having trouble finding jobs that provide affordable insurance
  by Barbara Rose
• The Chinese at worship: official and underground Christianity
  by Stuart C. Strother
• When my daughter asks why
  by Daniel Donaghy
• Trust betrayed: a crisis in congregational life
  by Brad Hill
• Small prayer in a hard wind
  by Christian Wiman
• Unitarians steadfast after church shooting
• Living by the word
  by Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld
• Visiting hours
  by Paul Willis
• Great debates
  by Andrew R. Murphy
• Obama's bind
  by David Heim
• God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215
  by Todd Shy
• The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post—Religious Right America
  by David Dark
• Imitating Jesus: An Inclusive Approach to New Testament Ethics
  by Valerie Abrahamsen
• Love and Death: My Journey Through the Valley of the Shadow
• The Power of God and the Gods of Power
• Stomp Glide Wobble
  by Louis R. Carlozo
• Last Night
  by Louis R. Carlozo
• Sharing the Road, Songs for Lent
  by Louis R. Carlozo
• Still Commissioned: The Songs of Mitchell Jones
  by Louis R. Carlozo
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army
  by Steve Vineberg
• Hateful talk
• Anglican unity in 'grave peril' if gay bans not enforced, Williams says
  by Daniel Burke
• Bay State clears path to same-sex rites for out-of-state couples
• Catholic campus revokes chair for feminist scholar
• Reid proposes federal antipolygamy task force
• Three faiths, three friends
  by Amy Frykholm
• Language lessons