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Articles in Oct 17, 2001 issue of Christian Century

• High Court declines to hear religious bias case
• War's Dirty Secret: Rape, Prostitution, and Other Crimes Against Women
  by Mieke Holkeboer
• Changed spiritual scene
  by David Briggs
• The Moral Re-Armament movement is now calling itself Initiatives of Change
• Wild fire
  by Michael Battle
• Seismic changes
  by Martin E. Marty
• Ohio judge kills ban on partial-birth abortions
• Light in darkness
  by L. Gregory Jones
• Acute need
  by W. Daniel Hale
• A Washington, D.C.-based Islamic advocacy group is urging mosques around the country to hold open houses to familiarize non-Muslims with their culture and faith
• Gasping for air
  by Michael Battle
• Festival films
  by James M. Wall
• Bill would alter limits on church politicking
• A study by a Michigan professor finds that church involvement helps low-income youth make progress in school
• Spiritual counsel
  by Rodney J. Hunter
• The White House has nominated John V. Hanford III to serve as ambassador-at-large for international religious liberty, and appointed Michael K. Young, dean of the George Washington University Law School, as chairman of a federal commission that monitors r
• What's changed?
• Court rules against Bible-distributing school
• Theologian Jurgen Moltmann of Germany has proposed that a world Muslim-Christian conference be held in the wake of the terrorist attacks in the U.S.—and he suggests that Pope John Paul II might be the right person to convene such a conference
• Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi
  by Todd Volker
• Fall
  by Kemmer Anderson
• Pakistan churches tense; relief groups strapped
• Albuquerque pastor Philip Walker Butin, a Spanish-speaking minister who cofounded an innovative theological education program for the New Mexico Conference of Churches, has been elected president of San Francisco Theological Seminary
• Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life
  by David A. Hoekema
• The little chapel that could
• The Church of England's Board for Social Responsibility has called for the decriminalization of marijuana in its report to the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee's study of whether the British government's drug policy is working
• Apocalypse now?
  by Walter Wink
• Visions of sacrifice
  by R. Scott Appleby
• American Baptists nominate new executive
  by John Dart
• Ireland's Adams In South Africa
• A Visit to Vanity Fair
  by James Calvin Schaap
• A different kind of funeral
  by Peter W. Marty
• Nigerian religious riots leave hundreds dead
• The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility has named Margaret Ann Cowden, an American Baptist Churches executive, to chair the general board of the New York-based association of more than 275 Protestant, Catholic and Jewish institutional investors
• The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community's Battle Over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights
  by Tex Sample