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Articles in Sept 12, 2001 issue of Christian Century

• Clear night, after a September storm
  by Steve Wilson
• India churchwomen get divorce rights
• Eugene Korn, a New Jersey expert in Christian-Jewish relations, has been tapped as the new director of interfaith affairs for the Anti-Defamation League, succeeding Rabbi Leon Klenicki, who retired earlier this year
• Trusting the Spirit: Renewal and Reform in American Religion
  by Wayne A. Holst
• Stocking the shelves
  by John M. Buchanan
• Religious investment scams on rise
• Church of the Brethren officials are concerned that revenue has dropped 20 percent in the 141,000-member denomination
• Pivotal leadership
  by L. Gregory Jones
• No comment department
• Rebuff in Zimbabwe for WCC's Raiser
• After 25 years overseeing a worldwide Methodist membership now at 36 million, Joe Hale has retired as general secretary of the World Methodist Council
• Christian Contradictions: The Structures of Lutheran and Catholic Thought
  by Michael Root
• Proud of the UMC label
  by J. D.
• A Utah man who follows a now-abolished Mormon practice by living with five wives and 30 children has been sentenced to five years in prison
• Going on faith
  by Mark Chaves
• ELCA tinkers with ecumenism
  by Jean Caffey Lyles
• Faith battle may hike death risk, study says
• Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo and his Korean bride of three months ended their marriage by agreeing to part so that he can return to the celibate life of a Catholic prelate
• Renouncing Satan
  by Carol Zaleski
• Mideast fight marks racism conference
• Noted theologian, ecumenist and former CHRISTIAN CENTURY editor-at-large Robert McAfee Brown died September 4 in a nursing home near his summer house in Heath, Massachusetts
• Jesus in Disneyland: Religion in Postmodern Times
  by Mark U. Jr. Edwards
• `Close-knit' megachurches
  by John Dart
• It is at least "somewhat likely" that a large group will split from the Presbyterian Church within the next 50 years, a majority of pastors and specialized clergy speculated in a recently released Presbyterian survey taken last February
• In-your-face preaching
  by Mark Harris
• Debacle in Durban
• Bishop delays probe of conservative priest
• Lutheran Brotherhood and Aid Association for Lutherans—two fraternal benefit societies that are listed as Fortune 500 companies—have announced plans to merge by the end of 2001
• Hunger pangs
  by Harvey Gallagher Cox
• A Timorese triumph
  by Dean Peerman
• NCC assures Palestinian Christians of solidarity
• Sarah Polster, 48, founding editor of the Religion-in-Practice series of books at Jossey-Bass, died at her Alameda, California, home on July 4 following a nine-month battle against cancer
• Come from the four winds, o breath
  by Ann Horn
• A federal judge in Florida has upheld the state's law banning gays from adopting children, reaffirming one of only three state laws in the country that ban gay adoption
• No way out
  by Mark Harris
• Crosswords
  by Martin E. Marty