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Articles in March 9, 2004, issue of Christian Century

• Passion for the Passion
• Christians counter The Da Vinci Code
• John Tietjen, pivotal Lutheran figure, dies
• Re-purposed: what is a church for?
  by Jason Byassee
• Bifocals
  by Paul Willis
• Hold the apple
• Data bite
• O'Brien guilty
• Transport
  by Sydney Lea
• Beyond redemption?
• Simply put
  by John M. Buchanan
• Captive audience
• San Francisco gays
• The Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board will cease endorsing women for chaplain positions "where the role and function of the chaplain would be seen the same as that of a pastor."
• Hidden pursuits: the shadow economy
  by Lillian Daniel
• Frodo falsified …
  by Kevin Taylor
• Understanding the Passion
• Uncovered
• Giving from Episcopal dioceses dips 7 percent
• When United Methodists start their 11-day quadrennial convention April 27 in Pittsburgh, they will have to sort through some 1,500 to 1,600 petitions submitted by church agencies, regional conferences and other groups and individuals
• News to me
  by Barbara Brown Taylor
• Cartoon critique …
  by Yehiel E. Poupko
• Price of peace
• Americans living in poverty
• Scholars still debate who crucified Jesus
  by G. Jeffrey MacDonald
• Conservative rabbis from the Rabbinical Assembly voiced their support February 12 for the controversial security barrier Israel says it needs to protect its population against the incursion of terrorists
• Bibliotherapy
  by Barbara Brown Taylor
• Necessary divisions …
  by Daniel Whitley
• Give it up
• Hooked on war: the media fix
  by G. Jeffrey MacDonald
• British Anglicans unmoved on gay issue
• A missionary from South Kingstown, Rhode Island, was shot to death February 14 while traveling with three other American ministers in Iraq to establish a church
• Douglas Horton and the Ecumenical Impulse in American Religion
  by Paul A. Crow, Jr.
• Body language
• Something to live for: what adolescents want
  by Kenda Creasy Dean
• Most take Bible stories literally
• Three men who attacked a Presbyterian hospital in Pakistan last year were sentenced January 23 to death for the murder of four women
• An Introduction to the Gospel of John
  by Pheme Perkins
• Liberal Episcopalians unveil modified Alpha
• Big Macs yield big bucks
• Helping the morning
  by Jeanne Murray Walker
• Korean cloning feat stirs religious concern
• Limited-time offer
  by A. Katherine Grieb
• Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces: Putting God in Place
  by Marcia Z. Nelson
• Pushing buttons
  by James M. Wall
• An Epiphany
• Favorite poems: an ongoing series of poems, with commentary, as selected by other poets
  by Jean Janzen
• European Union debates nod to God
  by Rebecca Goldsmith
• The real prodigal
  by A. Katherine Grieb
• Call to prayer
• Ordained by baptism
  by Martin E. Marty
• Not left behind
• SBC leaves alliance, may drop 'Southern'
• ABCs of faith: beginning with Alpha
  by Debra Bendis
• Cultural exchange
  by Steve Vineberg