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Articles in Nov 6, 2002 issue of Christian Century

• Rev. in aisle four
• Baptist group adopts identity statement
• Elizabeth R. Achtemeier, 76, a leading evangelical renewal voice in the Presbyterian Church and a retired adjunct professor of Bible and homiletics at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, died October 25 in Richmond, Virginia
• Not quite winter
  by William Snyder, Jr.
• Contra Oprah
• Liberal in a conservative age
• Survival guide
  by Dwight Moody
• Bush spurns pleas to admit more refugees
• Flesh becomes word: the incarnational poetry of Scott Cairns
  by Jeff Gundy
• The Social God and the Relational Self
  by Roderick T. Leupp
• Prison of hope
  by James M. Wall
• GM=godly/good marketing
• Mainline evangelicals vow to stay and witness
• The former first lady of Ohio says she was one of seven women illicitly ordained as Catholic priests on a boat on the Danube River earlier this year
• Slime-master: inside the `vast right-wing conspiracy'
  by Gary Dorrien
• Saint Jerome in his study
• White House Christians
  by John M. Buchanan
• Sunday afternoon with a Christian family during Ramadan in Aleppo, Syria
  by Ann Struthers
• Lutheran bishops seek norms for lay-led rites
• Advent alchemy
  by John Stendahl
• Theological tinkering
  by Christopher H. Evans
• Reforming ministry …
• Growing old together
• Quote, unquote
• In the last two days of a nostalgic four-day mission in Texas Stadium near Dallas, Billy Graham broke attendance records for the venue his "crusade" opened in 1971
• Chaos in Colombia: can the drug-funded war be stopped?
  by Chris Herlinger
• Black day in Derry
  by Steve Vineberg
• Can we all agree?
  by Janice Love
• More Americans view Islam unfavorably
• Good shepherds
  by Talitha Arnold
• Caution: Bible class in session
  by Barbara Brown Taylor
• Military chaplains …
• Dead silence
• Traveling through the dark
  by William Stafford
• French churches begin first debate on gays
• Imperative
  by Scott Cairns
• In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery
  by Matthew V. Johnson
• Morphing Moses
  by Martin E. Marty
• World War IV?
• Scholars, churches debate: was Jesus an only child?
• The husband of an Indian woman who claims her stomach tumor disappeared after praying to Mother Teresa says his wife was cured by medicine, not miracles
• My amusing despair
  by Scott Cairns
• Taking aim
  by John Petrakis
• Muhammad wouldn't approve
• Is the Jesus of history engraved in stone?
  by John Dart
• Iran strongly condemns the terrorism inflicted on the U.S. by the September 2001 attacks, but by looking to war with Iraq, America will play into the hands of Osama bin Laden, Iranian Vice President Sayyid Mohammad Ali Abtahi warned at a high-level Christ
• Interval with Erato
  by Scott Cairns
• Everything Is Illuminated
  by Gordon Houser
• Misfired
• Toronto museum gets first ossuary exhibit
• British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has been under pressure from fellow Orthodox rabbis to repudiate or rewrite passages in his recently published book The Dignity of Difference
• Adventures in New Testament Greek: Mysterion
  by Scott Cairns
• Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida
  by Leo D. Lefebure