Christian Century

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Articles in Dec 26, 2006, issue of Christian Century

• Dissident Episcopal diocese backs off from outright split
  by Daniel Burke
• Chinese bishop may face excommunication
• Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile
  by Ellen Charry
• Ellison not first to forgo Bible for oath
  by Omar Sacirbey
• Living by the word: dressing up
  by Lawrence Wood
• Book marks
• Christian coalition head quits before start
• Living by the word: signs and sounds
  by Lawrence Wood
• Fall of the empire
  by John Petrakis
• Lot's wife
  by Jill Bergkamp
• Family ties
  by John M. Buchanan
• Misusing Jesus: how the church divorces Jesus from Judaism
  by Amy-Jill Levine
• No more scapegoats
  by Thomas Lehman
• HIV/AIDS report from UN is sobering
• NCC supports report urging new Iraq policy
• Sorry condition
• Pope's Turkey trip touched all faith, diplomatic bases
  by Scott Rank
• Poetry
  by Jeanne Murray Walker
• 'You shall not kill' …
  by Brian McCarthy
• The need for cooperation …
  by Edd Doerr
• WCC now hopes for broader 2013 assembly
• Rondel: Beside water at nightfall
  by Steve Wilson
• Jihad and the Bible …
  by Leonard R. Klein
• Voices of 2006
• Manger politics
  by William H. Willimon
• Grand illusion: costs of war and empire
  by Gary Dorrien
• Inquisitive president
  by James M. Wall
• Norway Lutherans vote to cut church-state ties
• Sealed off
  by Chris Herlinger
• What ever happened to the Baby Jesus?
  by Brett Foster
• Regifting
  by Martin E. Marty
• The committee that interprets religious law for the Conservative Jewish movement, the centrist branch within North American Judaism, has accepted a legal opinion that allows for the ordination of gay rabbis and the blessing of same sex unions
• Books without borders
  by Jason Byassee
• Presbyterian and Jewish leaders have promised to work toward a "renewed engagement" after the PCUSA last summer revised its policy on divesting from companies involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands
• All souls
  by Carol Zaleski
• False choices plague anti-AIDS fight
• Wandering pilgrim
  by Todd Shy
• The widow of an American soldier killed in Afghanistan has finally gotten what she said her husband would have wanted: a pagan religious symbol placed on his government-issued gravestone