| CONTENTS | ||
| Editor’s Notes | Ellen K. Wondra | 417 |
| Homosexuality, Ethics, and The Church | ||
| The Reverend Canon Richard A. Norris, Jr. | Richard W. Corney | 419 |
| In Gratitude for the Reverend Canon Richard A. Norris, Jr. | Mark S. Sisk | 425 |
| In Appreciation | Ward B. Ewing | 427 |
| Introduction | W. Mark Richardson | 429 |
| Norris’s Intentions | Kathryn Tanner | 435 |
| Some Notes on the Current Debate Regarding Homosexuality and the Place of Homosexuals in the Church | Richard A. Norris, Jr. | 437 |
| Responses | ||
| Reasoning with Scripture | Ellen F. Davis | 513 |
| Beyond: A Response to Richard Norris | Dale B. Martin | 521 |
| Believers and the Beloved: Some Notes on Norris’s Christology | Eugene F. Rogers | 527 |
| Thomas Aquinas and (Our) Moral Debate | Mark D. Jordan | 533 |
| Same-Sex Relationships and Issues of Moral Obligation | Margaret A. Farley | 541 |
| Has Ms. Spaulding Been Addressed? | Christopher L. Morse | 549 |
| Orientation and Choice | Thomas E. Breidenthal | 557 |
| Consistency and Christian Ethics | William Schweiker | 567 |
| Toward a Positive Black Male Heterosexuality | Dwight N. Hopkins | 575 |
| Norris’s Contribution to the Quest for Marriage Equality | William Stacy Johnson | 583 |
| Norris’s Razor | Richard Fabian | 589 |
| The Care of Souls | Victoria Matthews | 599 |
| Homosexuality: The Norris Manuscript’s Pastoral Dimensions | Barry C. Morgan | 607 |
| The Child in Our Midst: Reflections on Richard Norris’s “Notes” | Stephen Paul Bouman | 615 |
| Poetry | ||
| Attuned | Sheryl Slocum | 625 |
| Lucy in the Sky | John F. Deane | 626 |
| Unmasking | Leslie Goerner | 628 |
| Structural Detail: St. Patrick’s Cathedral | Bonnie Thurston | 629 |
| The Upper Room | Tim Gavin | 630 |
| Review Article | ||
| Looking from the Outside In: Social Science and Sexual Identity in Today’s Churches | Jay Emerson Johnson | 631 |
| Book Reviews | ||
| A. K. M. Adam, Faithful Interpretation: Reading the Bible in a Postmodern World | Sean D. Burke | 649 |
| Stephen Budiansky, The Bloody Shirt: Terror after Appomattox and Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II | John Addison Dally | 650 |
| E. D. H. Carmichael, Friendship: Interpreting Christian Love | Dongsheng John Wu | 653 |
| Owen F. Cummings, Canterbury Cousins: The Eucharist in Contemporary Anglican Theology | Leander S. Harding | 656 |
| Roger Ferlo (ed.), Heaven | Micah Jackson | 657 |
| Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time to Keep Silence | Gary R. Hall | 658 |
| Brian Hebblethwaite and Douglas Hedley (eds.), The Human Person in God’s World: Studies to Commemorate the Austin Farrer Centenary and Ann Loades and Robert MacSwain (eds.), The Truth-Seeking Heart: Austin Farrer and His Writings | Jeffrey Vogel | 660 |
| Bernard Hoose (ed.), Authority in the Roman Catholic Church: Theory and Practice | Ellen K. Wondra | 664 |
| Grazyna Drabik and David Curzon (eds.), Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamienska | Mary Mallek Haines | 667 |
| W. Eugene March, God’s Land on Loan: Israel, Palestine, and the World | Alain Epp Weaver | 668 |
| Peter Matheson (ed.), Reformation Christianity | Fredrica Harris Thompsett | 670 |
| Walter Russell Mead, God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World | Timothy F. Sedgwick | 672 |
| Jurgen Moltmann, A Broad Place: An Autobiography | Brock Bingaman | 673 |
| Jeremy Morris (ed.), To Build Christ’s Kingdom: F. D. Maurice and His Writings | Anthony D. Baker | 675 |
| Michael Mott, The World of Richard Dadd | Sofia M. Starnes | 677 |
| Jane Barter Moulaison, Lord, Giver of Life: Toward a Pneumatological Complement to George Lindbeck’s Theory of Doctrine | Matthew Aaron Tennant | 680 |
| Richard I. Pervo, Dating Acts: Between the Evangelists and the Apologists | Matthew L. Skinner | 681 |
| Theresa Sanders, Tenebrae: Holy Week after the Holocaust | Richard Geoffrey Leggett | 683 |
| John D. Sykes, Jr., Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, and the Aesthetic of Revelation | Gary R. Hall | 685 |
| Earl Zimmerman, Practicing the Politics of Jesus: The Origin and Significance of John Howard Yoder’s Social Ethics | Alain Epp Weaver | 686 |