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Articles in Oct 23, 2002 issue of Christian Century

• Don't preach it
• Taste test: a pastoral call
  by Lawrence Wood
• Spirituality said to spur social activism
  by John Dart
• Roy C. Nichols, 84, the first African-American bishop elected after the United Methodist Church was created in 1968, died in Oakland, California, on October 9
• Protestantism in America
  by Richard Wightman Fox
• What's changed? …
  by Robert C. Wiederaenders
• Way poverty used to be
• Peace prize to Carter for `untiring effort'
• Christian Scientists have embarked on a $50 million venture to share the thought of their founder, Mary Baker Eddy, with the world through a new library dedicated to her prolific career
• Sit on it
  by Talitha Arnold
• The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power and Transforming Democracy
  by Helen Sterk
• Fantastic scenario?
• A passing glimpse
  by Robert Frost
• Muslim official indicted or aiding terrorists
• Cardinal Francis Arinze, 69, a possible papal candidate who has headed the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue for 17 years, has been named the new head of the Vatican department overseeing liturgy and the sacraments
• Beginning again
  by Carol Zaleski
• Trips to Israel …
  by Jeffrey K. Salkin
• About abortion
• Candidates advised on handling faith issues
• Wind tells and tolls
• True grit
  by Talitha Arnold
• Your Word Is Truth: A Project of Evangelicals and Catholics Together
  by Stanley J. Grenz
• Bike lesson
  by Martin E. Marty
• Caught in the crossfire
• Coexisting with Saddam: Iraqi Christians fear war, decry sanctions
  by John Dart
• Falwell recants slur against Muhammad
• Country artist Willie Nelson hosted a made-for-television documentary, cosponsored by the United Church of Christ and the National Council of Churches, that began showing in October on ABC affiliate stations
• Grammatical shifts
  by Emily Archer
• Just war formulas
• Counting the loss
• Pulpit politics bill fails for now
• Lilly gives $58 million to support pastors
• Paul Matthew Washington, a "steadfast acolyte of Christian liberalism" and an activist priest in the Episcopal Church, died October 7 at 81
• Baylor University Press Director
• The pledge of allegiance …
  by Elane O'Rourke
• Name that tune
• Quote, unquote
  by Noeleen Heyser
• The Episcopal Church's Executive Council has voted to continue pursuing a joint project to move the denomination's headquarters from New York's Second Avenue to the General Theological Seminary campus on Ninth Avenue in that city
• A sense of place: the many horizons of Martin E. Marty
  by Wendy Murray Zoba
• A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith Is Dying and How a New Faith Is Being Born
  by Gilbert H. Vieira
• Memo on M.E.M.O
  by John M. Buchanan
• Signs of faith and unbelief
• Women for peace
• Polish church leaders have dedicated the country's first cemetery to commemorate German civilians who died in communist hands after Germany's defeat in 1945
• Interfaith `prayer': what is it and should we do it?
  by Gilbert Meilaender
• Kieslowski's heaven
  by John Petrakis
• Garb for the ages
• Robertson grant irks faith-based critics
• The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee has officially voted to refuse funds from the newly formed breakaway state convention in Missouri
• History
  by Jeanne Murray Walker
• Baptismal font, Sobata, Negev desert
• Miracle of the fish
• Australian clerics urge calm after Bali attack
• An Argentine archbishop accused of sexually abusing seminarians in a scandal that was first reported eight years ago has resigned, protesting his innocence
• God as Santa: misreading the prayer of Jabez
  by Rodney Clapp
• Stumbling through moonlight
  by Steve Vineberg