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A Meal with Jesus

Discovering grace, community, and mission around the table

Remember the Red Sea

Why not capitalize on the richness and mystery of our ancient symbols?

Evangelism as Sacrament

Velcroed to a high-felt need: Jerry Root says evangelism is seeing how God is already working in someone's life.

Real Presence

What can happen when a thoroughly secular woman eats a piece of bread. A review of 'Jesus Freak.'

The God Who Became Blood

What my dysfunctional prostate taught me about Jesus.

There's Power in the Blood

On the heels of the Twilight Saga's success, Christian novelists are tapping the riches of vampire mythology.

Leaving Mungiki

Some express skepticism as violent sect receives baptism.

A Eucharistic Presence

How South African churches are acting like Jesus.

Blessed Be the Name of the Lord

Why 'Creator, Redeemer, Sanctifier' is somewhere between heresy and idolatry.

Vatican Says Baptisms Must Use Traditional Trinity

Those "in the name of the Creator, and of the Redeemer, and of the Sanctifier" are invalid.

Immersed in a Baptism Brouhaha

Changes of heart renew centuries-old divisions.

God Is Not the Object of Our Worship

He is the subject who forms us as we sing, tell, pray, and enact God's story in worship.

Evel Overcome With Good

Daredevil Knievel's testimony triggers mass baptisms at Crystal Cathedral.

Carding For Communion Wine

Plus: British Airways relents on cross necklaces, McCain changes positions on reform bill amid Dobson "amends," orthodoxy trumping AICs, and other stories from online sources around the world.

Defying the Church  Subscriber access only

Front line of Communion war spreads to homosexuality.

Let Us Not Set Asunder  Subscriber access only

The threat of gay marriage challenges Christians to defend older, better definitions of marriage. But what are those definitions, and how did they develop?

Do We Still Need the Reformation? Part 1  Subscriber access only

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