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Articles in Nov 7, 2001 issue of Christian Century

• Presbytery ordains lesbian. .
  by John Dart
• Most Americans who made charitable donations in response to the September 11 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center say they intend to give as much or more than they usually give to other charities, according to a report by a nonprofit coaliti
• Evangelist Billy Graham completed a four-day evangelistic rally in Fresno, California, despite suffering a broken foot in an early morning fall two days prior to the October 11-14 event
• A History of the English Bible as Literature
  by Susan M. Felch
• Bin Laden's strategy: war and the religious imagination
  by John Dart
• Violence protested
• The board of the National Association of Evangelicals has chosen Leith Anderson, a Minnesota pastor and author, as the organization's interim president
• Moral outing
  by Karl Stevens
• Disparate perspectives
• One quiet day: Jerusalem Christian leaders march to Bethlehem
  by Elaine Ruth Fletcher
• Deciding that an evangelical denomination best known for its humanitarian activities did not adhere to official rules governing religious activities, a judge in Moscow has ordered the Salvation Army to close its operations in the city
• Back to normal?
  by Barbara Brown Taylor
• Where geese corrupt
  by Martin E. Marty
• Regarding a bonfire
  by Bill Stadick
• To a city grown accustomed to memorial services since the World Trade Center tragedy, add a remarkable event: a Buddhist fire ceremony
• Episcopal priest Carol J. Gallagher, a member of the Cherokee Nation, has been elected suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Southern Virginia
• In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture
  by Susan M. Felch
• Pledges grow to rebuild small Orthodox church
• A committee of Conservative Jewish rabbis and scholars has ruled that a minyan, or ten-member prayer group, cannot be constituted or held in cyberspace
• Getting organized: faith-based alliances make a difference
  by Stephen Hart
• Civilization clash?
  by James M. Wall
• Muslim to Muslim: an American speaks out
  by M.A. Muqtedar Khan
• Unitarian group changes name, settles lawsuit
• R. Scott Rodin, president of Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, has announced his resignation, effective next June
• Wide as the Waters: the story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired
  by Susan M. Felch
• Canada's church leaders urge end to bombing
• Korean hymnal
• Doug Trouten, current president of the Evangelical Press Association, has been selected to serve as the organization's new executive director
• The Second One Thousand Years: Ten People Who Defined a Millennium
  by David A. Hoekema
• Minister, mistaken for fugitive, gets new SUV
• The Protestant Hour, the longtime ecumenical radio program, is piping new theme music across the air-waves
• Colombia's war: drugs, oil and markets
  by Tom F. Driver
• Myths in Stone: Religious Dimensions of Washington, D.C
  by Missy Daniel
• Annan receives nobel prize
• The missions agency of the United Methodist Church will cut its staff by 20 percent and trim spending by $6 million — citing the effect of a two-year drop in its stock portfolio, including the decline after the September 11 terrorist attacks
• The American Jewish Committee has named Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, a retired high-ranking military chaplain, to oversee interfaith relations in the U.S
• Confronting the Controversies: a Christian Looks at the Tough Issues
  by Mark Horst
• Ecologists of faith look for converts
• A group of Orthodox Christian lay leaders hopes to raise $1 million to help fund a campaign to make the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in the U.S. independent of its historic ties to Greece and Istanbul
• The other kingdom
  by Michael Battle
• Infections and inequalities: The Modern Plagues
  by Jonathan Frerichs