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Articles in Dec 12, 2006, issue of Christian Century

• Presidential record
• A Private History of Awe
• The Poetry of Yorifumi Yaguchi: A Japanese Voice in English
• Brahms: Sacred Choral Music
• Letter to a Christian Nation
  by Jason Byassee
• Conservatives decry FCC ruling on cursing
• Living by the word: double vision
  by Joanna M. Adams
• Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church is Transforming the Faith
• Just war: second thoughts on Iraq
  by Brian Stiltner
• One more candle
  by Alexa Smith
• Meeting Islam: A Guide for Christians
• Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair
• Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America
  by Walter Brueggemann
• Jewish case against torture
• North Carolina Baptists adopt strictest ban on gay-friendly churches
• Sinners Welcome: Poems
• Sam Peckinpah's Legendary Western Collection
• Einojuhani Rautavaara: Vigilia
• Slow-motion grace
  by L. Gregory Jones
• Gift wrapped
  by John M. Buchanan
• Ave Maria
  by Penelope Duckworth
• Grace and Necessity: Reflections on Art and Love
• Dwelling Places
• Vaughan Williams et al.: Mass and Motets
• Hours of Babel
  by Steve Vineberg
• Liberal evangelical theology
• NBC said to ease up on Veggie Tales edits
• Thirst
• Beethoven: "Die Verliebte," Piano sonatas 4-7, volume 3 of series
• Why the cross?
  by William C. Placher
• Reality check
• Faithful voters
  by John C. Green
• Holiday
• Charpentier: Te Deum and Messe pour plusieurs instruments au lieu des orgues
• A secular nation
  by M.L. Brownsberger
• Muslim neighbors
  by Karl A. Plank
• ELCA apologizes for persecution of Anabaptists
• God's Companions: Reimagining Christian Ethics
• Digging to America
• Rameau: Nouvelles Suites
• Light from Heaven
  by Debra Bendis
• Do-nothing Congress
• Vietnamese Christians
• Thank God It's Friday: Encountering the Seven Last Words from the Cross
• The Short Day Dying
• The Fallen Idol
• Thompson and Clemens: The Easter Procession, Encounters with the Risen Christ
• Gender issues …
  by Sidney J. Jansma, Jr.
• In Advent
  by Jean Janzen
• Methodist court upholds right to bar gays from membership
• Ives: "Concord" Sonata, other piano pieces
• A little hope
  by Martin E. Marty
• Mark Noll
• The Whistling Season
• Forbidden Planet
• Religion and politics …
  by Gene Garman
• Coming attractions
• Texas Baptists hit by financial scandal
• Religious leaders in Arab nations launch AIDS response group
• Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
• Richard Strauss: Capriccio
• Chopin: Etudes
• Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
• Whiteman
• Formative acts
• Progressive groups say war, poverty topped voter concerns
• Vatican speaks out on Muslim women's veils
• God's Universe
• The Conformist
• Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Simply in Season Children's Cookbook
• There ought to be a law—against it
• The HarperCollins Study Bible: Fully Revised and Updated
• Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
• By a Slow River
• Six Moral Tales
• Catholic bishops issue guidelines on gays
• Janet Edwards
• Chopin: Complete Nocturnes
• Simply in Season: recipes that celebrate fresh, local foods in the spirit of more-with-less