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Articles in Dec 11, 2007, issue of Christian Century

• Political time-out
  by Carol Zaleski
• Warring madness
• The only thing that worries me
  by Jose Maria Aznar
• Religious alliance calls for compassion toward immigrants
• Purse race
  by Martin E. Marty
• Pastor to presidents
  by Michael G. Long
• Uniter, not divider?
• Primary figures
  by J. David Woodard
• Tennessee Baptists drop challenge to Belmont University
• Christmas: A Candid History
  by Lawrence Wood
• [Cartoon]
• Nativity figure speaks
  by Jeanne Murray Walker
• Few female priests get salaried posts in Church of England
• Bonhoeffer and King: Speaking Truth to Power
  by Willis Jenkins
• Fair-weather voters
• Shopocalypse now
  by Jason Byassee
• Lesbian clergy couple go on Amazing Race
  by Lilly Fowler
• Wartime truths
  by Steve Vineberg
• Death on wheels
• Ministry and mission
  by Amy Frykholm
• Conservative wins second bishop election in South Carolina
• Borg's Jesus
  by James R. Rohrer
• Extravagant gift
  by John M. Buchanan
• Popular history
• Bishops aim to shape political consciences
• European panel wary on religious rights in Turkey
  by Jonathan Luxmoore
• Favoring fitness …
  by Jim Burke
• Parched
• The GodTube
• Pope to visit D.C., New York in April
• In a church election watched closely, Jeffrey Lee, a Midwest native and rector of a church in Medina, Washington, was picked on the second ballot November 10 to be the next Episcopal bishop of Chicago
• CC recommends
• Persecution in Syria …
  by Christa von Zychlin
• Mother's love
• Wine of Christ
• Methodists ponder cost, size of their quadrennial convention
• Tenured faculty at Oral Roberts University approved a motion November 12 voicing "no confidence" in Richard Roberts, the embattled president of the charismatic Christian university in Tulsa
• Performing scripture: Nicholas Lash on the tasks of theology
• Harsh justice
• Chip in the old block: American attitudes toward the Internet
• Christian response grows to Muslim plea for global dialogue
• Living by the word: reading the signs
  by James Alison
• Grief work: after a child dies
  by Harold K. Bush, Jr.
• Dethroning humans
• If the civil-rights movement truly transformed America, why are our cities still segregated?
  by Jonathan Darman
• Blake formally elected head of Church of God in Christ
  by Addle M. Banks
• Living by the word: risk and fulfillment
  by James Alison