Christian Century
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Articles in May 17, 2005, issue of Christian Century
- Rinse cycle
- The church council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has recommended that its churchwide assembly in August approve interim sharing of the Eucharist between the ELCA and the United Methodist Church
- When in Rome
by John M. Buchanan - Changing and changeless
by Miroslav Volf - God Is Not … Religious, Nice, "One of Us," an American, a Capitalist
by Craig Hovey - Our common fears
- Pomp and circumstance
by David Hoekema - Benedict signals that non-Catholic ties are important
- Out of Eden
by John Petrakis - Five Muslims, all U.S. citizens who said they were detained at the border as they were returning from a religious conference in Toronto, have filed a federal suit in New York against the Department of Homeland Security, alleging that they were targets of
- Peaceful pope
- Rule of Benedict
by Michael Root - A doubt and a promise
by Talitha Arnold - Christian ethics
by Robin W. Lovin - Seeking common ground
by Denise Riley - The U.S. Air Force Academy has begun a mandatory class in religious tolerance for cadets and staff
- Living on fumes
- Rabbis representing the Reform, Conservative/Masorti and Reconstructionist movements in Israel have announced that they support the right of gay and lesbians to hold a controversial festival in Jerusalem August 18-28
- The word made rock
by Talitha Arnold - In need of a pope?
by D. Stephen Long - Theology
by Amy Plantinga Pauw - A new Powell doctrine
by James M. Wall - Crank case
- Pull the plug
- Woman slated to lead Disciples of Christ
- Strangely familiar
by Sarah Morice Brubaker - Full court press
- Senators' bill would OK stem cell studies
- Judicial posts: for justice or 'just us'?
by John Dart - Seeing with a thousand eyes
by Lawrence Wood - The pope and me
by Martin E. Marty - Limits of the human
by David Impastato - PCUSA, largest Korean church in dispute.
- Fired Habitat founder forms similarly named ministry in same city
- Portrait of a pastor.
by Martin B. Copenhaver - Iliff settles with Latino ex-president
- O afterwards: A benediction
by Jill Alexander Essbaum - Knippers, conservative critic of mainline, dies
- Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
by Walter Brueggemann - Reading Islam
by Charles Kimball - Best sellers
- Reformed museum for the 'Protestant Rome'
- Alternative universe: John Paul's papacy provided a sense of the church as a total culture, a coherent tradition
by Carol Zaleski - Connecticut OKs gay civil unions
- Kingdom coming
by Max L. Stackhouse