Christian Century

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Articles in May 2, 2006, issue of Christian Century

• To tell the truth
• Blowing smoke
  by Jason Byassee
• Storm symbol
• Living by the word: on the vine
  by Stan Wilson
• Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy
  by Sarah Johnson
• Write it down
• Let us not pray
  by Martin B. Copenhaver
• Iliff seminary names new president
• Battle for the Bible: the impasse over slavery: while abolitionists appealed to the spirit of the Bible, proslavery scholars could cite chapter and verse
  by Mark Noll
• America's Crisis of Values: Reality and Perception
  by Alan Wolfe
• Expect crises
• Israel's fences
  by Menachem Klein
• Judge clears author of The Da Vinci Code
• Open-door policy: homosexuality and the message of Isaiah: Isaiah overturned a biblical directive. Does that example illumine today's debate on homosexuality?
  by Frederick J. Gaiser
• Against the Grain: Unconventional Wisdom from Ecclesiastes
• Time out
• Emancipation?
  by G. Wayne Glick
• A coalition in Arkansas of community groups and religious bodies led by United Methodist pastor Stephen Copley celebrated their victory for working families April 10 when that state's governor, Mike Huckabee, signed into law a $1.10-an-hour increase in th
• In God's hands: mental illness and the soul
  by Kathryn Greene-McCreight
• Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture CD-ROM, Vol. 1
• Encore
  by Steve Vineberg
• Children of divorce
  by Louis Hoffman
• Skating on thin ice
• Judas text adds to 'secret' lore
  by John Dart
• Southern Baptist ethicist Richard Land, joined by other Protestant spokespersons, has urged Congress to approve a bill introduced last year that would give the federal government the authority to control the manufacture, promotion and sale of tobacco prod
• Any day's light
  by Catherine Abbey Hodges
• If Lutherans ruled
  by Martin E. Marty
• Selective gospel?
• Massive protests, faith leaders, oppose harsh steps against illegals
• Romania's Orthodox Church has welcomed a government decision to cancel a "Dracula Park" entertainment complex near Bucharest, five years after the project was initiated to take advantage of the country's vampire legend
• God's time, our time
• Signs of the times
• Study questions power of strangers' prayers to assist healing
• Deadly attacks
• Seeing the Word: In memoriam Peter S. Paine
  by Sydney Lea
• Five score years
• Carter urges centrist Baptists to organize
• Frederick Buechner
• Dying well
  by L. Gregory Jones
• Grace at breakfast
  by John M. Buchanan
• Lonely hearts
• SBC totals down? No, just a glitch in reporting
• Institute on Religion and Democracy
• Language games
  by David Heim
• Testing God
• ABCs of political slang
• William Sloane Coffin, prophet, 1924-2006
• Living by the word: ties that bind
  by Stan Wilson
• The People's New Testament Commentary
  by Robert A. Atkins