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Articles in Dec 28, 2004 issue of Christian Century

• Divestment in Israel
  by Brian J. Grieves
• Jury defrocks openly gay Methodist pastor
• The Episcopal diocese of Pittsburgh, headed by Bishop Robert W. Duncan Jr., has moved to "distance" itself from its denomination's national leadership by approving a measure that asserts local control over certain theological controversies
• Lake effect
  by Martin E. Marty
• Night sounds
  by Jill Bergkamp
• Apocalypse now
  by Peter Dula
• A fifth Methodist body has joined an ongoing effort to foster cooperation among black and white Methodists
• Guest list: at the divine banquet
  by Rodney Clapp
• Fueled by membership growth in Latin America, Africa and Asia, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is reporting that its membership worldwide climbed in one year by more than 1 million to 13.6 million
• Final rites …
  by William W. McDermet, III
• Canadian court OKs gay rites
• God on the loose
  by Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
• Must Christianity Be Violent? Reflections on History, Practice, and Theology
  by Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer
• UCC reaps publicity from banned ad
  by John Dart
• France's National Assembly overwhelming adopted legislation November 30 legalizing passive euthanasia
• Standard deviation
  by John Petrakis
• Clergy support new vote
• Nancy Drew a eugenicist? …
  by Rhoda Kraus
• American Baptists walk a tightrope
• Plato was wrong
  by Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
• It takes a village
  by James Yerkes
• Behind church doors
  by Jason Byassee
• Pope John Paul II's foreign minister warned that the war against terrorism has spread "Christianophobia" in parts of the world where Western policy is believed to be determined by Christianity
• Not optimistic
  by Miroslav Volf
• George Marsden, a Notre Dame professor who wrote a biography of 18th-century colonial preacher Jonathan Edwards, has won the prestigious 2005 Grawemeyer Award in Religion
• Another view of Tariq Ramadan …
  by Bernard Roussel
• Invested interests
  by John M. Buchanan
• College to close out 'open theism' scholar
  by John Dart
• Smells and bells: turning to Orthodoxy
  by Amy Johnson Frykholm
• A strange silence
• Right to torture: an escalating issue that may torment the U.S
  by David Anderson
• 'More Orthodox' than the Orthodox
  by John Dart
• Data bite
• Back to roots
• After Arafat
  by James M. Wall
• Anticommunist preacher Billy James Hargis, a "bawl and jump" evangelist based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, died at age 79 on November 27
• Voices of 2004
• Looking East: the impact of Orthodox theology
  by Jason Byassee