Christian Century

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Articles in Dec 12, 2001, issue of Christian Century

• Franklin Graham talks about Islam, draws fire
• The White House has hired its first staffer assigned specifically to reach out to American Muslims
• I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
  by Leo D. Lefebure
• Church Women United apologizes to fired staff
• As expected, A. Roy Medley, a New Jersey church administrator, has been named the new general secretary of the American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A
• Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church
  by Wayne A. Holst
• Arinze: hard-liners make interfaith relations hard
  by Douglas Todd
• Baptist Women in Ministry, which has mostly Southern Baptist members, has named Susan Miller as office manager and executive director
• Religion in the Modern American West
  by David Yoo
• Evangelical theologians reject `open theism'
  by Eric Gorski
• Three-dimensional faith
  by Brad Ronnel Braxton
• Just war
• Lilly gives millions to clergy recruitment
• Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order
  by Douglas A. Hicks
• Public invocations …
• Life and liberty
• More than five decades after the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the Middle East, scholars celebrated the publication of nearly all those ancient documents
• God and Globalization, Volume I: Religion and the Powers of the Common Life
  by Douglas A. Hicks
• Praise teams …
• Mule ride
  by Heidi Neumark
• Back in the air: a young Afghan boy flies a kite at the Shamshtoo refugee camp outside Peshawar, Pakistan
• God and Globalization, Volume II: The Spirit and the Modern Authorities
  by Douglas A. Hicks
• Courtship rituals …
• Short-term mission trips
  by Paul Jeffrey
• The evangelical Lutheran Church in America is asking its members and institutions to find ways to combat the "evils" of the sex industry, saying sex-for-money businesses degrade both partners in the transaction
• June 15, 1904—September 11, 2001, R.I.P
  by Saul Bennett
• A moral squint
  by James M. Wall
• Human cloning
• Plans to celebrate the restoration of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. are on again after fund-raising problems were overcome
• Nonviolent voices: peace churches make a witness
  by William Vance Trollinger, Jr.
• Translating the faith
  by Martin E. Marty
• Ashcroft releases some data on detainees
• A federal commission on international religious freedom is urging the Bush administration to "lay the groundwork now for a future Afghanistan that respects the rights of all persons, including the right to freedom of religion and belief, and strength
• True victory
  by Barbara Brown Taylor