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Articles in Oct 16, 2007 issue of Christian Century

• Let's get together
• You'll be forgiven if you think for a moment tonight you're in a time warp
  by Charles Gibson
• 'Too many mosques' remark draws fire to Giuliani campaign
• Recent renovations to historic Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama—where four black girls were killed in a 1963 bombing—are nearing completion, said pastor Arthur Price
• The Maytrees: A Novel
  by Amy Frykholm
• Redemptive violence
• Euonymus Alatus
  by Barbara Crooker
• Insurer rejects church because of 'risk' of its gay stance
• Living by the Word: one-upmanship
  by Audrey West
• Raging with Compassion: Pastoral Responses to the Problem of Evil
  by Sam Wells
• Extraordinary measures
• The Iraq is largely about oil
  by Alan Greenspan
• Dobson disparages Fred Thompson as candidate
  by Robert Marus
• New Jersey state officials have revoked the tax-exempt status of a Methodist-run seaside pavilion that church officials have said is off-limits to gay and lesbian civil union services
• The Children of Hurin
  by Philip Zaleski
• Clergy dreams and drives …
  by Ron Sumter
• By the book: an experiment in biblical living
  by A.J. Jacobs
• Mental walls
• Religion & politics
• Prison bureau relents on purging books, will return most religion texts
• Protest in Myanmar
• After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion
  by Brian D. McLaren
• No exit?
• Best sellers
• New 'ex-gay' study lauded by right but faulted on methods
• New Testament
  by Beverly Roberts Gaventa
• Compass of Affection: Poems New and Selected
  by Brian Volck
• Consequences
  by John M. Buchanan
• Elements of a good story
• All Saints challenges IRS 'vagueness'
  by John Dart
• Rex Humbard, pioneer TV evangelist, dies
• Books to argue with
• Bringing the war home
  by Diane Teichert
• Religious enigma
• I can admit that there are some problems in hip-hop
  by David Banner
• Prelate: 'mortal sin' to give communion to pro-choice politician
• Churches in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city, have begun to supply residents with water for domestic use, in an attempt to lessen the effects of shortages made worse by a struggle over control of the water supply
• Be Near Me
  by William H. Willimon
• Fitness fixation
  by Gilbert Meilaender
• Bagged for Jesus
  by Martin E. Marty
• The war in Iraq: a Ken Burns film
• Occupational hazard
  by Ellen Charry
• Faith and nursing
• Living by the Word: house calls
  by Audrey West
• The Mystery of the Child
  by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore
• The immigration question
• Episcopal bishops hold fast against demands
• Pentagon closes book on Muslim chaplain
• Church history
  by Mark A. Noll
• Puddle hopping
  by Carol Zaleski
• Syrian sabbaths
  by Barbara Law
• Disaster capitalism
• 'Episcopalian' McCain says he's Baptist
• Maryland high court nixes gay marriage
• Practical theology
  by Anthony B. Robinson
• Unglued
  by Steve Vineberg