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Articles in May 3, 2005 issue of Christian Century

• Blue water
  by Jeanne Murray Walker
• Holmer and students …
  by Phyllis J. Holmer
• Moscow art exhibit called 'blasphemous,' museum officials fined
• Postmodern Jesus: the Vatican's quarrel with Roger Haight: in seeking to do theology in dialogue with modernity, Haight has perhaps conceded too much to contemporary culture
  by Thomas P. Rausch
• Your pick
• Long-term ministry
  by Larry Reimer
• The other theory of relativity
• Jerry Falwell
• Trespasses
  by Gary Sledge
• Yale University cuts chapel's ties to UCC
• Living by the word: fire in the dark
  by Mark Harris
• Cambridge Platonist Spirituality
  by Roger E. Moore
• Accelerating Sainthood
• Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity
  by Amy Frykholm
• The Robert Shaw Reader
  by Gena Caponi Taberry
• Proof for God
• Churches Together on target for launch
  by John Dart
• Middle ground elusive on gun-control issue
• Heart of the matter: sometimes pastors need a reminder of what we are here for
  by John M. Buchanan
• Family chaos.
  by Steve Vineberg
• Cardinal Law's role in Rome recalls church's scars
• Beyond the commandments: we should be wary of attempts to unhitch the Ten Commandments from their religious moorings
• The Episcopal Church Executive Council has decided to "voluntarily withdraw" its three official participants from a June global steering committee meeting of the worldwide Anglican Communion
• For the fourth year in a row, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has received a multimillion-dollar anonymous gift for global missions—this time $5 million
• Smut glut
• Steven Tsosie Plummer
• Inside stories: Mike McCurry on church, politics and civil debate
• Protesting a mass
• Heart on his sleeve
  by Lawrence Wood
• How you know which one is yours
  by Michael Chitwood
• Associating with outcasts …
  by Judith Stevens
• Kansas is 18th state to ban same-sex nuptials
• Living by the word: power point: the ascension is not merely a matter of visualizing Jesus as lifted up into the clouds
  by Mark Harris
• Catholic nun begins jail sentence for military protest.
• Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
• No tenure for God
• German Protestants have remembered Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed 60 years ago for his role in the plot to kill Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler
• John Chane
• In praise of folly
  by Gordon Atkinson
• No return
• Doing it by the book
  by Martin E. Marty
• Just justice
• Chances are
• Gay clergy option backed by ELCA council, professors
• Federal faith-based grants doubled in 2004
• Sticker shock …
  by David Coffin
• How times have changed
• Speech lessons
  by L. Gregory Jones
• Duke University
• Thanks, but no thanks?
• Can a Jew be a Christian? The challenge of Messianic Judaism: with its connections to a mainline church, Avodat Yisrael has raised profound questions about Christian and Jewish identity
  by Jason Byassee
• One in seven rural Americans is poor
• Hair-trigger alert
• Churches seek probe of Zimbabwe elections
• Final exam
• SBC baptisms on the rise
• Archbishop Iakovos, pioneer Orthodox ecumenist, dies at 93
• Cheery environmentalism
• 2005 is crucial year for cutting poverty, say religious experts
• Hearing God out
  by Samuel Wells