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Articles in August 22, 2006, issue of Christian Century

• Almost persuaded
• ELCA numbers drop, contributions grow
• Paying attention
  by Deborah van Deusen Hunsinger
• A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination
• Conversion
  by John M. Buchanan
• High-tech creationism
• Investors hail fraud convictions of Baptist foundation officials
• Wide-angle historian: Jaroslav Pelikan
  by David Steinmetz
• Sound alternatives
  by Louis R. Carlozo
• Hopes and fantasies
• Holy rappers
• South Korean church council urges Bush to lift sanctions on North
• Trouble brewing
  by L. Gregory Jones
• Last resort
  by Steve Vineberg
• Holy the Hardee's
  by Thomas R. Steagald
• How dare he?
• Religion in Lebanon
• A former top director with the Internal Revenue Service has filed a complaint against the Missouri Catholic Conference, claiming that the nonprofit group broke rules against politicking in a statewide fight over embryonic stem cell research
• De-creation
  by Bill McKibben
• Guns and carnivores
  by Garcia Fay Ellwood
• Anatomy of faith
• Blood and rubble
  by Warren Goldstein
• Evangelicals break with Bush on North Korea
• Park Avenue Christian Church
• Who Are You to Say? Establishing Pastoral Authority in Matters of Faith
  by Lillian Daniel
• Liturgical evangelism …
  by John P. Wesley
• Wearing white vestments and later donning colored silk stoles, 12 women were ordained July 31 as deacons and priests aboard a riverboat in Pittsburgh by a group claiming that such rites are valid Roman Catholic ordinations
• Making religion an issue
• Aid agencies struggle in Lebanon
• The lead couple in the lawsuit that led to the nation's first legalized gay marriages have separated, say news reports
• Preaching Re-Imagined: The Role of the Sermon in Communities of Faith
  by Stephen Robert
• Head cases
  by Martin E. Marty
• Going Catholic
  by Jason Byassee
• The place for conservatives
• Lutherans, Catholics Methodists in accord
• Salvation Army staffer admits embezzlement
• The Din in the Head
  by Brian Doyle
• Higher math
• Gibson's anti-Semitic outburst shocks Jews
• Living by the word: essential question
  by Cynthia M. Campbell
• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry
  by Jill Pelaez
• The g-word
• FDA rethinks its delays on sale of morning-after pill
• Living by the word: ID check
  by Cynthia M. Campbell
• The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
• Failure to communicate
• Some vow fight for gay marriage
• Another time
  by Saul Bennett
• War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death