Christian Century

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Articles in May 1, 2007, issue of Christian Century

• Johnny Hart
• Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World
  by Robin Lovin
• Your tax dollars at work
• Nuclear protest
• Encountering Ancient Voices: A Guide to Reading the Old Testament
  by Kathleen M. O'Connor
• Same-sex unions
  by Paul G. Crowley
• Read and unread
  by John M. Buchanan
• Spanking away sin
  by Beth Felker Jones
• Job
  by Kathleen M. O'Connor
• Crisis in the Village: Restoring Hope in African American Communities
  by Robin Lovin
• Pope: 'nothing positive' happening in Iraq
• Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World: An Introduction to Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Katharine Doob Sakenfeld
  by Kathleen M. O'Connor
• Class warfare
  by Walter Brueggemann
• Brainstorm
  by Norman B. Bendroth
• The Natural History of the Bible: An Environmental Exploration of the Hebrew Scriptures
  by Kathleen M. O'Connor
• Justice in a Global Economy: Strategies for Home, Community, and World
  by Robin Lovin
• Make videos, not war
• Daniel W. Herzog
• Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Literary Meditations on Suffering, Death, and New Life
  by Amy Plantinga Pauw
• Christian yoga
  by Carol Zaleski
• 1-2 Kings
  by Kathleen M. O'Connor
• Public visions
  by Timothy Renick
• Talk back
• Outing the truth
• Best sellers
• Latin American Council of Churches
• Tenebrae: Holy Week after the Holocaust
  by Amy Plantinga Pauw
• Loss and recovery
  by Steve Vineberg
• Remapping the holy land
• Relief groups push water projects
• New opportunities for distance learning for ministers, seminarians, and the laity
• The willful heart
  by Stella Nesanovich
• Living by the word: poolside healing
  by Mary Hinkle Shore
• The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South
  by Amy Plantinga Pauw
• Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
  by Amy Plantinga Pauw
• Trademark Gospel®
  by Martin E. Marty
• Supply and demand
• A Time to Embrace: Same-Gender Relationships in Religion, Law, and Politics
  by Amy Plantinga Pauw
• The heart of the gospel
  by Richard B. Hays
• Posttraumatic Christians
  by Chris Rice
• Gay man in UMC case welcomed as member this time
• Living by the word: up and out
  by Mary Hinkle Shore
• Howard Thurman: Essential Writings
  by Amy Plantinga Pauw
• Don't fund, don't ban
• Religion news vies for space as newspapers downsize
  by Hannah Elliott
• The Way That Leads There: Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life
  by Amy Plantinga Pauw
• Chemical addiction
  by Valerie Weaver-Zercher
• E-mails to families form shrines to fallen U.S. soldiers
  by Wayne Woolley
• Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life
  by Kathleen M. O'Connor
• Cross Examinations: Readings on the Meaning of the Cross Today
  by Amy Plantinga Pauw
• Equal opportunity offender
• In a labor settlement brokered by Atlanta's Carter Center and backed by Presbyterians, fast-food giant McDonald's and a coalition of Florida farm workers announced an agreement April 9 to double the wages and improve working conditions for tomato pickers
• Christian Ethics and the Moral Psychologies
  by Robin Lovin
• Before the meltdown
  by Alton C. Thompson
• Obama has edge over Clinton with mainline Protestant Democrats
• Mandate to Difference: An Invitation to the Contemporary Church
  by Kathleen M. O'Connor
• Mysteries & morals: the historical fiction of C. J. Sansom
  by Ralph C. Wood
• Divide and conquer
• The number of allegations of sexual abuse against Catholic clergy dropped 9 percent in 2006, according to a survey of U.S. dioceses and religious orders released in mid-April
• God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition
  by Robin Lovin
• Students clean up
• Sex in the Bible: A New Consideration
  by Kathleen M. O'Connor
• Breaking away
  by Amy Johnson Frykholm
• Eye of the beholder
• Three former Birmingham college students are headed for federal prison cells after a judge April 9 ordered them to serve sentences ranging from seven to eight years for a series of rural church fires last year
• Apocalypse Now? Reflections on Faith in a Time of Terror
  by Robin Lovin
• Vatican and Israel at an impasse over property rights
  by Francis X. Rocca
• Psalms, Vol. 1: Psalms 1-41
  by Kathleen M. O'Connor
• Liberal heroes
  by William C. Placher