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Articles in Oct 10, 2001 issue of Christian Century

• A habit of ministry
• Frontline theologian: Robert McAfee Brown
  by John Dart
• Elvis Presley, who wrote more than 50 gospel songs and recorded many classic hymns in his career, will be one of eight musicians inducted into the Gospel Music Association's Gospel Music Hall of Fame on November 27 in Nashville, Tennessee
• Fortress mentality
  by Miroslav Volf
• God blessing America?
  by John Dart
• The controversial United Nations racism conference in Durban ended with delegates reaching a cautious agreement
• Development as Freedom
  by Douglas A. Hicks
• letters
• To think and act anew
  by John M. Buchanan
• Supreme Court to hear vouchers case
• One of the country's most outspoken nuns, faced with expulsion from her religious order because of her ministry with gays, is leaving that order to join the Denver-based Sisters of Loretto
• Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy
  by Victoria Barnett
• Darkness visible
  by J. Barrie Shepherd
• In an authoritative joint statement made by three Vatican departments and approved by Pope John Paul II, the Vatican on September 17 strongly reaffirmed its refusal to permit the ordination of women as deacons
• The Market System: What It Is, How It Works, and What to Make of It
  by Douglas A. Hicks
• Benedict's Dharma: Buddhists Reflect on the Rule of Saint Benedict
  by Leo D. Lefebure
• Canada's congregations facing clergy shortage
  by Douglas Todd
• The Religion Newswriters Association
• The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965
  by Victoria Barnett
• Reasons of state
  by Robin W. Lovin
• Charges dropped against Episcopal bishop
• Bennett W. Smith Sr., 68, a civil rights leader and former president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, died August 7 after a long illness
• A New Religious America
  by Charles Kimball
• Afterlife
  by Nancy Mairs
• U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has rejected a request by the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia to temporarily suspend a Virginia law requiring a minute of silence in the state's public schools
• Heavenly minded
  by Michael Battle
• Fighting for Social Justice: The Life Story of David Burgess
  by Leon Howell
• Pioneering pope visits Armenia
• T. D. Jakes, a Dallas-based minister known for the Pentecostal fervor in his sermons, was dubbed "America's Best Preacher" by Time magazine
• Constantine's Sword. The Church and the Jews: A History
  by Victoria J. Barnett
• Testament
  by Martin E. Marty
• Homegrown extremism
  by Jeffrey DeYoe
• Rights activist nun slain in Colombia
• James D. Ford, 70, the widely respected former chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives who retired last year, died in Annapolis, Maryland, August 27
• Family: A Christian Social Perspective
  by David Clairmont
• White bull of peace
  by Jonathan Frerichs
• Davey and Goliath may return to TV
  by Kevin Eckstrom
• Retired But Untiring
• Calvin: A Biography
  by Randall C. Zachman