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Articles in April 19, 2003 issue of Christian Century

• Urban turnaround: reorienting old churches for a new age often takes great creativity
  by John M. Buchanan
• Some 65 antiwar activists were arrested outside the White House on March 26 in a show of civil disobedience organized by religious peace groups
• UMC agency seeks change in gay stance
• Design matters: the city and the good life: can the art of traditional urban design be renewed, and can we relearn how to create beautiful and livable cities?
  by Philip Bess
• Warring arguments
• Guns, then gospel?
• The Canadian Council of Churches has publicly supported Prime Minister Jean Chretien in his refusal to participate in Operation Iraqi Freedom
• Central Conference of American Rabbis
• In the Devil's Snare: the Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
  by Kenneth P. Minkema
• Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams says the "greatest casualty" so far of the Iraq war has been "a coherent approach to international law and to the maintenance of alliances."
• Episcopal panel urges no gay blessings
• Fresh evidence
  by Kristen Bargeron Grant
• Job 1, by Dierdre Luzwick
• Proselytizing in postwar Iraq?
• U.S. military chaplains have been solace in the smoke of the battlefield ever since the days of George Washington
• Federal Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer ruled on March 31 that the city of Evanston, Illinois, violated the rights of free speech, assembly and equal protection of the Vineyard Christian Fellowship in denying the church the use of its own building for worship ser
• First aid
  by Larry Hedrick
• Media casualties: journalists embedded with the military can't ask pertinent tough questions
• A shipment of badly needed personal hygiene soap and laundry detergent for Iraqi children arrived in Baghdad on March 31 as part of the U.S.-based All Our Children campaign, a multiagency effort
• Catholic diocese sues another in sex scandal
• Reclaiming the city: a church stays put
  by Eric O. Jacobsen
• Spiritual communities …
  by Bill Lagerroos
• 20th century AD
  by Douglass Cassel
• Churches in India have expressed shock over the enactment of a controversial law curbing religious conversion that passed without debate in the legislative assembly of the state of Gujarat
• Mister Rogers
  by Carol Zaleski
• Pope John Paul II has warned that the war in Iraq, already "a human tragedy," could become "a religious catastrophe" if it serves to set Christians and Muslims against each other
• Data bite
• No joke
  by Kristen Bargeron Grant
• A deafening silence
  by John Petrakis
• Religious relief groups resist Pentagon control
  by Jason White
• Iraq—ancient Mesopotamia—has some 4,000 archaeological and museum sites that are endangered by bombs and other ravages of warfare, according to scientists and museum curators
• A husband and wife team widely respected for commentary on the Catholic Church will receive the Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame
• Unplugged
  by Chris Bush
• Century marks
• The House of Representatives has passed a resolution urging a national day of prayer and fasting as the nation battles Iraq and the threat of terrorism
• A Christian missionary in Central America was shot and killed March 28 during a robbery
• Resurrection
  by James Drury
• Home cooking
  by Martin E. Marty
• Alternative TV: the war through Arab eyes. Al-Jazeera has been ruffling feathers both inside and outside the Arab world
  by Gregg Reynolds
• The National Council of Churches and two Muslim groups said they will provide humanitarian aid to Iraq, but they do not want it to be interpreted as condoning the war
• What is being called the world's largest Sikh gurdwara outside India was inaugurated March 30 in London with a reported 40,000 people attending the opening ceremony
• Intruder in my arms: stressed-out mothers
  by Debra Bendis