The Christian Century back issues from May 2007:
Read and unread.(From the editor/publisher)(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
Talk back.(Rutgers women's basketball team)
May 01, 2007
Make videos, not war.(Century marks)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007
Outing the truth.(Century marks)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007
Remapping the holy land.(Century marks)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... REMAPPING THE HOLY LAND: Early Christians rejected the notion that land or place could be considered sacred. Visits by Christians to Palestine began as early as the second century, but the impetus seems to have been the desire to understand biblical events, not to revere a place. However, ...
Supply and demand.(Century marks)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007
Don't fund, don't ban.(Century marks)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007
Equal opportunity offender.(Century marks)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007
Divide and conquer.(Century marks)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
May 01, 2007
Eye of the beholder.(Century marks)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007
Your tax dollars at work.(Century marks)(Financial report)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007
Spanking away sin.(CHRISTIAN CHILD ABUSE)
May 01, 2007;
The willful heart.(Poem)
May 01, 2007;
Brainstorm.(FINDING HOPE WITH WILLIAM STYRON)
May 01, 2007;
Posttraumatic Christians.(LAMENTATION IN AFRICA)
May 01, 2007;
Best sellers.(Bibliography)
May 01, 2007
Relief groups push water projects.(News)
May 01, 2007
E-mails to families form shrines to fallen U.S. soldiers.(News)(electronic mails)
May 01, 2007;
Obama has edge over Clinton with mainline Protestant Democrats.(News)(Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton)
May 01, 2007
Gay man in UMC case welcomed as member this time.(News)(United Methodist church )
May 01, 2007
Religion news vies for space as newspapers downsize.(News)
May 01, 2007;
Students clean up.(News)(Brief article)(Photograph)
May 01, 2007
Vatican and Israel at an impasse over property rights.
May 01, 2007;
Nuclear protest.(News)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007
Pope: 'nothing positive' happening in Iraq.(News)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007
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 who supply the restaurant chain with tomatoes.(Briefly noted)(McDonald's Corp.)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007
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.(Briefly noted)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007
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.(Briefly noted)(Matthew Cloyd, Benjamin Moseley, Russell DeBusk)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007
Daniel W. Herzog.(People)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007
Latin American Council of Churches.(People)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007
Johnny Hart.(People)(Obituary)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007
Living by the word: poolside healing.
May 01, 2007;
Living by the word: up and out.(gospel)
May 01, 2007;
Job (Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary).(Old Testament)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Job (Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary). By Samuel L. Balentine. (Smyth & Helwys, 714 pp., $65.00.) Broadly researched and eminently engaging, this book is an interactive treasure box. It contains commentary, theological reflection, artistic interpretations, prose and poetry related to Job's ...
Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life.(Old Testament)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
Mandate to Difference: An Invitation to the Contemporary Church.(Old Testament)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
The Natural History of the Bible: An Environmental Exploration of the Hebrew Scriptures.(Old Testament)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
Sex in the Bible: A New Consideration.(Old Testament)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
Psalms, Vol. 1: Psalms 1-41 (Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms).(Old Testament)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Psalms, Vol. 1: Psalms 1-41 (Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms). By John Goldingay. (Baker Academic, 640 pp., $44.99.) Goldingay's titles for individual psalms show his ability to bring texts alive for readers today--for example, "How to Pray against the Powerful" ...
Encountering Ancient Voices: A Guide to Reading the Old Testament.(Old Testament)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World: An Introduction to Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Katharine Doob Sakenfeld.(Old Testament)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
1-2 Kings (Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries).(Old Testament)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Literary Meditations on Suffering, Death, and New Life.(Theology)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South.(Theology)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South. By Philip Jenkins. (Oxford University Press, 272 pp., $26.00.) This provocative book helps North American Christians rediscover the Bible by recounting a wide range of ...
A Time to Embrace: Same-Gender Relationships in Religion, Law, and Politics.(Theology)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
The Way That Leads There: Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life.(Theology)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
Tenebrae: Holy Week after the Holocaust.(Theology)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Tenebrae: Holy Week After the Holocaust. By Theresa Sanders. (Orbis, 192 pp., $19.00 paperback.) After a 2003 visit to Poland on a study tour sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation, Sanders came away chastened and determined to examine anew the Catholic tradition's appropriation ...
Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church.(Theology)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church. By James K. A. Smith. (Baker Academic, 160 pp., $17.99 paperback.) Leavened by references to contemporary movies and by church case studies, this accessible introduction to postmodernism points out the ...
Howard Thurman: Essential Writings.(Theology)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
Cross Examinations: Readings on the Meaning of the Cross Today.(Theology)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Cross Examinations: Readings on the Meaning of the Cross Today. Edited by Marit A. Trelstad. (Augsburg Fortress, 336 pp., $20.00.) Trelstad addresses central concerns about the meaning of the cross in contemporary theology: What role do interpretations of the cross play in racial and ...
Christian Ethics and the Moral Psychologies.(Ethics)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... Christian Ethics and the Moral Psychologies. By Don S. Browning. (Eerdmans, 254 pp., $30.00 paperback.) Overcoming Our Evil: Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine. By Aaron Stalnaker. (Georgetown University Press, 352 pp., $49.95.) Comparative and interdisciplinary ...
God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition.(Ethics)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition. By John Witte Jr. (Eerdmans, 512 pp., $30.00 paperback.) Whereas Browning and Stalnaker develop new approaches to the study of Christian ethics, Witte demonstrates the value of thorough knowledge of familiar material ....
Apocalypse Now? Reflections on Faith in a Time of Terror.(Ethics)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World.(Ethics)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
Crisis in the Village: Restoring Hope in African American Communities.(Ethics)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
Justice in a Global Economy: Strategies for Home, Community, and World.(Ethics)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
Mysteries & morals: the historical fiction of C. J. Sansom.
May 01, 2007;
Breaking away.(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
Liberal heroes.(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
Public visions.(God in Public: Four Ways American Christianity and Public Life Relate)(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
New opportunities for distance learning for ministers, seminarians, and the laity.(Brief article)(Calendar)
May 01, 2007
Same-sex unions.(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
The heart of the gospel.(Covenant of Peace: The Missing Peace in New Testament Theology and Ethics)(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
Chemical addiction.(The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement)(Book review)
May 01, 2007;
Class warfare.(Book review)
May 01, 2007; ... AWOL: The Unexpected Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service--and How It Hurts Our Country. By Kathy Roth-Douquet and Frank Schaeffer. Harper--Collins, 256 pp., $24.95. RECENTLY SENATOR John Kerry suffered yet another self-inflicted wound with a clumsy joke ....