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Articles in April 8, 2008 issue of Christian Century
- Drug heads
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Glimpsing the future
by Jason Byassee - A young Nepali girl worshiped by many Buddhists and Hindus as a kumari, or "living goddess," has renounced her divine role following a request from her family, an official in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, said March 2
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The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West
by William C. Placher - Tortured logic
- No pretense
- Methodist church in D.C. to recognize gay unions
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Seeing in Shadows
by Lois Huey-Heck -
Living by the word: reflections on the lectionary
by William Brosend -
Border truths
by Liane Sickels - Beloved community
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Aging tulips
by Jean Keskulla - Moving on
- Despite church pleas, Bush vetoes bill to ban harsh interrogation
- Britain's United Reformed Church
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God Is Dead
by Mark Ralls -
Good sermon, Reverend
by John M. Buchanan - Strange love
- Antihunger Souper Bowl runs up the score again
- Ruth Stafford Peale, the cofounder of the inspirational magazine Guideposts and widow of author and minister Norman Vincent Peale, died February 6 at her home in Pawling, New York
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Juno
by David Heim - Irony of it all
- Muslim caucus?
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Salvation workout: how I found the virtues
by Paula Huston - Gay bishop Robinson, barred from Lambeth, will be around anyway
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Polkinghorne and miracles …
by Edward Ordman -
Wall on Israel …
by Michael C. Kotzin -
The fixer-upper church
by Lydie Raschka - The United Church of Christ has retained a former U.S. solicitor general to represent the church during an Internal Revenue Service investigation of its political activities
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Evensong
by Anne Yarbrough - Transforming losses
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Episcopal seminaries adjust to realities
by John Dart - Tim Goeglein, a key liaison between the White House and conservative Christians for seven years, resigned February 29 after plagiarism charges surfaced against him
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What the Thunder Said: A Novella and Stories
by Brian Volck - Southern Baptist group shifts position on climate
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Handshake ritual: Ministry at the church door
by Martin B. Copenhaver -
Crime wave
by Martin E. Marty -
Practice vs. orientation …
by David B. Carver - Aid for the poor
- The Southern Christian Leadership Conference has picked Emory University to house its documents and archival materials, most of them dating from 1968 to 1977 during the terms of SCLC presidents Ralph David Abernathy and Joseph Lowery
- Polish priest-scientist wins Templeton Prize
- Robert Walker, 95, who founded and edited prominent Christian magazines, died March 1 in Carol Stream, Illinois
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Our World
by Brian Doyle - Enough to make you swear
- Lukas Vischer, 81, a Presbyterian scholar who directed the World Council of Churches' Faith and Order office from 1965 to 1979, died March 11
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The Counterfeiters
by Steve Vineberg - McCain seeks support of GOP conservatives
- Caveat lector
- Chaldean Catholic archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of the northern Iraq city of Mosul, who was kidnapped in late February by armed attackers, has been found dead, church officials in Baghdad have announced
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