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• Mixed marriage 

  KAREN CAUGHT MY EYE early in our freshman year of college, and no wonder: she was--and is--beautiful. I have since learned that compliments about...

  Christian Century, 07/14/09 by Martin B. Copenhaver · More from publication

• Slings and arrows 

  AS A BOY I ALWAYS had a rather sunny disposition and, for the most part, the people around me reflected back to me warm affirmation in return. My...

  Christian Century, 06/16/09 by Martin B. Copenhaver · More from publication

• What's confirmation for? 

  UNTIL RECENTLY, it was the practice of the congregation I serve for the members of the confirmation class, most of them ninth graders, to write...

  Christian Century, 06/02/09 by Martin B. Copenhaver · More from publication

• Lessons before dying 

  Nothing to Be Frightened Of. Nothing to Be Frightened Of. By Julian Barnes. Knopf, 256 pp., $24.95. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Thing...

  Christian Century, 04/07/09 by Martin B. Copenhaver · More from publication

• Handshake ritual: Ministry at the church door 

  WORSHIP IS OVER and I am standing in the doorway shaking hands. In front of me is a couple I do not recall seeing before. I say, "Good morning! I'm...

  Christian Century, 04/08/08 by Martin B. Copenhaver · More from publication

• Let us not pray 

  Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, a large and long-awaited study has found....

  Christian Century, 05/02/06 by Martin B. Copenhaver · More from publication

• Living by the word: chariot of fire 

  ELIJAH, THE GREAT prophet who has traveled the length of Israel and spoken the word of the Lord directly to Israel's king, is now about to take the...

  Christian Century, 02/21/06 by Martin B. Copenhaver · More from publication

• Living by the word: starting over 

  SOMETIMES I'M watching TV news and reach the point where I cannot take in all the violence and destruction. So I turn off the television and try to...

  Christian Century, 02/21/06 by Martin B. Copenhaver · More from publication

• Loving God with Our Minds: The Pastor as Theologian 

  Loving God with Our Minds: The Pastor as Theologian. Loving God with Our Minds: The Pastor as Theologian. Edited by Michael Welker and Cynthia...

  Christian Century, 09/06/05 by Martin B. Copenhaver · More from publication

• Portrait of a pastor. 

  IT SEEMS as if all the pastors I know either have read Marilynne Robinson's novel Gilead or claim that it is on the top of the pile of books they...

  Christian Century, 05/17/05 by Martin B. Copenhaver · More from publication