CONTENTS:

The Church as Ark of Salvation (Part One) / Joe R. Jones
Community Care of the Dying: Beyond the Euthanasia Debate / Peter D. Browning
Reading between the Texts: Minor Characters Who Prepare the Way for Jesus / A. Edward Gardner
A Sermon: Little Words, Big Flames / Charles R. Blaisdell

The Church as Ark of Salvation (Part Two) / Joe R. Jones
Campbell's Pacifism and Relations with the State / Craig M. Watts
Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs: The Theology of the Stone Campbell People / John M. Imbler
Let Us Break Bread Together: The Church and Multi culturalism in America / Samuel K. Elolia
The Language of Faith and the 2004 Democratic and Republican National Conventions / Wilma Ann Bailey

The Art of Biblical Interpretation: Re membering the Past into the Present / Holly Hearon
Martin Luther King, the Church, and a Value-Fused Universe / Rufus Burrow, Jr.
Preaching after a Tragedy: Listening to Congregations after September 11, 2001 / Ronald J. Allen
Reason and the "More Excellent" Spirit: A Reformed Reflection on John 3:16 / Edgar A. Towne
Remembering the Barmen Declaration: Seventy-one Years Later / Scott Caulley
“Using a Picture": Wittgenstein and Byzantine Iconography / Michael Latzer

"Posturing in Borrowed Plumes": An Introduction to Preaching and Plagiarism / Joseph R. Jeter, Jr.
"Stolen Words": A Brief History and Analysis of Preaching and Plagiarism / Carter Shelley
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and [Rev.] Hyde": Preaching and the Internet / Joseph R. Jeter, Jr.
Attribution and Contribution: Two Ways to Avoid Plagiarism in Preaching / Mike Graves
Helping Listeners Trust the Word of the Preacher / Mary Alice Mulligan
A Code of Ethics for Preachers / Ronald J. Allen