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Articles in May 5, 2009 issue of Christian Century

• Letters indicate church knew of abuse in 1950s
• Postlude
  by John M. Buchanan
• Prayers for the public
  by Robert C. Spach; Robert M. Randolph; Kenneth W. Phifer
• God in headlines …
  by Mona Gustafson Affinito
• Stimulus package
• True confession
• The virtue of smallness
• Reversing baptism
• Head on the street
• Right to privacy
• Where's the religion news?
• We love you, wo/man
• Be fruitful, don't multiply
• Theology for buffaloes
• Remember when
• Words for hard times
• Bad company
• What is much more important to know than a test score is a student's family life, personal life, their socialization
  by John Hope Franklin
• When times are good, and jobs outnumber workers, it's easy to forget about our interdependence…
  by Zack Exley
• Entry points: church as a hosting community
  by Amy Frykholm
• Balancing the books: hard times in religion publishing
  by Marcia Z. Nelson
• Best sellers
• Churches dread giving pink slips
  by Greg Warner
• Presbyterians, Lutherans cut jobs, reduce budgets
• White House releases final faith-based panel names
• Japanese theologian Kosuke Koyama
• Priest professing Islam deposed by Episcopalians
• Vermont is fourth state to approve gay marriage
• Overture to Islam
• NAE leader steps softly into immigration debate
• Lutherans, Jews, Muslims and others seeking to cling to their faith in a time of tragedy came together for a prayer vigil April 4 at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Binghamton, New York
• The most severe drought in a decade is fueling a food crisis in Afghanistan that threatens millions of people with starvation, humanitarian agencies have warned
• Reflections on the lectionary
  by Bill O'Brien
• Yet I Loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election
  by Kathleen M. O'Connor
• Touching the Altar: The Old Testament for Christian Worship
  by Kathleen M. O'Connor
• Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible
  by Kathleen M. O'Connor
• Mothers of Promise: Women in the Book of Genesis
  by Kathleen M. O'Connor
• Old Testament Prophets for Today
  by Kathleen M. O'Connor
• Challenging Prophetic Metaphor: Theology and Ideology in the Prophets
  by Kathleen M. O'Connor
• Divine Presence amid Violence: Contextualizing the Book of Joshua
  by Kathleen M. O'Connor
• What Did the Ancient Israelites Eat? Diet in Biblical Times
  by Kathleen M. O'Connor
• Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel
  by Kathleen M. O'Connor
• Disability in the Hebrew Bible: Interpreting Mental and Physical Differences
  by Kathleen M. O'Connor
• Vulnerable Communion: A Theology of Disability and Hospitality
  by Amy Plantinga
• Theology and Down Syndrome: Reimagining Disability in Late Modernity
  by Amy Plantinga
• God Against Religion: Rethinking Christian Theology Through Worship
  by Amy Plantinga
• Why Go to Church? The Drama of the Eucharist: The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2009
  by Amy Plantinga
• On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process
  by Amy Plantinga
• Torture Is a Moral Issue: Christians, Jews, Muslims, and People of Conscience Speak Out
  by Amy Plantinga
• The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years, 2 vols
  by Amy Plantinga
• Wendell Berry and the Cultivation of Life: A Reader's Guide
  by Amy Plantinga
• A Theology of Public Life
  by Robin Lovin
• Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices
  by Robin Lovin
• Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality
  by Robin Lovin
• Catholic Moral Theology in the United States: A History
  by Robin Lovin
• Books to start with
• Liberal path
  by Timothy Renick
• Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism
  by Jason Byassee
• Introducing Moral Theology: True Happiness and the Virtues
  by Paul J. Wadell
• Taking Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality
  by Valerie Weaver-Zercher
• Christianity in India: From Beginnings to the Present [Oxford History of the Christian Church]
  by Philip Jenkins
• A. Lincoln: A Biography
  by Andrew R. Murphy
• Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
  by William H. Willimon
• Samuel Johnson: A Biography
  by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
• The Private Patient
  by Trudy Bush
• Shadow Country
  by Brian Doyle
• The Hour I First Believed
  by Lawrence Wood
• Making for home
  by Thomas Lynch
• On music
  by Louis R. Carlozo
• Insomniaccomplishments
  by Louis R. Carlozo
• Cada Dia un Regalo
  by Louis R. Carlozo
• The Imagined Village
  by Louis R. Carlozo
• Maybe Tomorrow
  by Louis R. Carlozo
• Two Lovers
  by Steve Vineberg
• I Love You, Man
  by Jason Byasee
• Blest be the ties that bind
  by Rodney Clapp
• Devotional
  by Lil Copan