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Articles in April 5, 2005 issue of Christian Century

• On not being spiritual
• The bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, meeting in early March, acknowledged that they were too divided to offer "a definitive word of advice" on a recommendation that regional synods restrain from disciplining churches that o
• The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community
  by Helene Slessarev-Jamir
• Keep walking
• Thomas Nominated
• Video ventures: two alternative to 'Alpha'
  by Debra Bendis
• Intercession
  by Jean Janzen
• On a mission: the uses of American power
  by Lloyd Steffen
• 'Where I'm at Sunday'
  by Lillian Daniel
• Consorting with aliens
  by Edgardo Antonio Colon-Emeric
• Episcopal church to forgo new bishops for year, leaders say
• Not about me: prayer is the work of a lifetime
  by Merold Westphal
• The tsunami and God …
  by Hal W. LeMert, Jr.
• Taxing thought
• Oregon reports drop in doctor-aided suicide
• Now we see … darkly
  by G. Wayne Click
• Occasional prayers
  by Jason Byassee
• Church leaders decry Bush budget
• Flocking together
  by Edgardo Antonio Colon-Emeric
• Uncompleted suicide
• The Word Made Flesh: a History of Christian Thought
  by William McDonald
• Good sports
• Mind over matter
• Gay marriage conflict renewed in California
• Gathering in expectation
  by Samuel Wells
• Labor agreement ends boycott of Taco Bell
• Selling Ourselves Short: Why We Struggle to Earn a Living and Have a Life
  by Arthur Paul Boers
• Hail, Mary
• Coming up empty
• It is finished
• Spring inventory/Ursuline Mother House/Paola, Kansas
  by Tim Bascom
• The Battle for Middle-Earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in the Lord of the Rings
  by Robert Spach
• Morality tale
• Baptists in Texas, Virginia may join world alliance
• Practicing incarnation
  by Barbara Brown Taylor
• Examined lives
  by Richard A. Kauffman
• Virtual spirituality
  by Martin E. Marty
• Shared solitude
  by Deborah Smith Douglas
• Stanley J. Grenz
• Graceful presence
  by John M. Buchanan
• Charles Townes
• Not funny
• Crusade in Iraq?
  by Gilbert Meilaender
• Joy at work
• Peace churches warn of 'back door draft'
• Hidden lives
  by Steve Vineberg
• Mysterious pew warmers
• It's been 143 years, Lindsey
• The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan has changed its name to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan & the Holy Land to reflect the fact that five out of its six congregations are clustered around Jerusalem and Bethlehem