| CONTENTS | ||
| Editor’s Notes | Ellen K. Wondra | 689 |
| Sermon | ||
| Climbing Higher, Plunging Deeper: At Home in the Ocean of God | Katharine Jefferts Schori | 695 |
| Addresses | ||
| God and Black Suffering: Calling the Oppressors to Account | James H. Cone | 701 |
| Shaking the Foundations: LGBT Bishops and Blessings in the Fullness of Time | Marilyn McCord Adams | 713 |
| Articles | ||
| Biblical Reasoning | John Webster | 733 |
| What is Scripture? Pursuing Smith’s Question | Steven G. Smith | 753 |
| Confession Obsession? Core Doctrine and the Anxieties of Anglican Theology | Christopher C. Brittain | 777 |
| Poetry | ||
| No Shadow of Turning | Marjorie Maddox | 801 |
| Acts of the Apostles | Mark Jarman | 802 |
| The Hand of God | Ronald Wallace | 805 |
| Christmas Carillon | Nancy G. Westerfield | 806 |
| Book Reviews | ||
| David Brown, God and Grace of Body: Sacrament in Ordinary | Vaughan S. Roberts SCP | 807 |
| William T. Cavanaugh, Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire | Michael Jendza | 810 |
| Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War | G. P. Mellick Belshaw | 811 |
| Elizabeth A. Johnson, Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God | Erin Brigham | 816 |
| Nigel Leaves, The God Problem: Alternatives to Fundamentalism | Katherine Sonderegger | 817 |
| Lambert J. Leijssen, With a Silent Glimmer of God’s Spirit: A Postmodern Look at the Sacraments | Michelle Blohm | 820 |
| Charles Marsh, Wayward Christian Soldiers: Freeing the Gospel from Political Captivity | William McKinney | 822 |
| Charles Mathewes, A Theology of Public Life | Rick Elgendy | 825 |
| Robert J. Miller (ed.), The Future of the Christian Tradition | Matthew Aaron Tennant | 828 |
| Tim Perry (ed.), The Legacy of John Paul II: An Evangelical Assessment | Peter A. Huff | 830 |
| Anne Rice, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt and Anne Rice, Christ the Lord: Road to Cana | Barbara Hughes | 833 |
| Kibbie Simmons Ruth and Karen A. McClintock, Healthy Disclosure: Solving Communication Quandaries in Congregations | Wakoh Shannon Hickey | 834 |
| Nicola Slee, The Book of Mary | Cynthia Briggs Kittredge | 837 |
| Iain Taylor, Pannenberg on the Triune God | Alan P. R. Gregory | 838 |
| Mary Ann Tetreault and Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Global Politics as if People Mattered | Eric Gilder | 839 |
| Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis | Patricia M. Davis | 844 |