| CONTENTS | ||
| Editor’s Notes | Ellen K. Wondra | 313 |
| Articles | ||
| Fresh Thoughts on Confirmation | Ruth A. Meyers | 321 |
| Muddying the Waters of Baptism: The Theology Committee’s Report on Baptism, Confirmation, and Christian Formation | James F. Turrell | 341 |
| Healing: Sacrament or Prayer? | Lizette Larson-Miller | 361 |
| The Scandal of Particularity Writ Small: Principles for Indigenizing Liturgy in the Local Context | Susan Marie Smith | 375 |
| Spiritual but Not Religious: The Influence of the Current Romantic Movement | Owen C. Thomas | 397 |
| Poetry | ||
| The Churches of My Youth | Stella Nesanovich | 417 |
| Secret Song | Tom Riley | 418 |
| Fishing | Sarah Rossiter | 419 |
| The Last Farm | Bonnie Thurston | 420 |
| Review Article | ||
| An Analytic Anglican: The Philosophical Theology of William P. Alston | Robert MacSwain | 421 |
| Book Reviews | ||
| Gerlinde Baumann, Love and Violence: Marriage as a Metaphor for the Relationship between YHWH and Israel in the Prophetic Books | Angela Bauer-Levesque | 433 |
| Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson (eds.), The Ecumenical Future: Background Papers for “In One Body through the Cross: The Princeton Proposal for Christian Unity” | Christopher Wells | 434 |
| Malcolm Brown, After the Market: Economics, Moral Agreement, and the Churches’ Mission | Iain Luke | 437 |
| Christopher Bryan, Render to Caesar: Jesus, the Early Church, and the Roman Superpower | Thomas Hughson, SJ | 438 |
| Brevard S. Childs, The Struggle to Understand Isaiah as Christian Scripture | Randall Heskett | 442 |
| William Sloane Coffin, Letters to a Young Doubter | Sam Portaro | 444 |
| John Crocker, Jr., A Rebirth of Freedom: The Calling of an American Historian, Thomas Payne Govan, 1907-1979 | Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. | 447 |
| James Farwell, This Is the Night: Suffering, Salvation, and the Liturgies of Holy Week | Richard Geoffrey Leggett | 450 |
| Richard W. Gillett, The New Globalization: Reclaiming the Lost Ground of Our Christian Social Tradition | William J. Danaher, Jr. | 452 |
| Roger Haight, SJ, Christian Community in History, Volume 2: Comparative Ecclesiology | William H. Harrison | 453 |
| Mike Higton, Difficult Gospel: The Theology of Rowan Williams | Lois Malcolm | 456 |
| Walter Kasper, That They All May Be One: The Call to Unity Today | Thomas C. Ferguson | 457 |
| Grant LeMarquand, An Issue of Relevance: A Comparative Study of the Story of the Bleeding Woman (Mk 5:25-34; Mt 9:20-22; Lk 8:43-48) in North Atlantic and African Contexts | David Jobling | 460 |
| Andrew Linzey and Richard Kirker (eds.), Gays and the Future of Anglicanism: Responses to the Windsor Report | Jay Emerson Johnson | 462 |
| Jeremy Morris, F. D. Maurice and the Crisis of Christian Authority | Jonathan Slater | 465 |
| Edwin T. Oakes, SJ and David Moss (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Hans urs Von Balthasar | Jason A. Fout | 467 |
| Oliver O’Donovan, The Ways of Judgement | Erik C. Owens | 468 |
| Doug Pagitt and Kathryn Prill, BodyPrayer: The Posture of Intimacy with God | R. Keelan Downton | 471 |
| Lamin Sanneh, Whose Religion is Christianity? The Gospel beyond the West | Andrew M. Mbuvi | 472 |
| Rupert Shortt, God’s Advocates: Christian Thinkers in Conversation | Stephen L. White | 475 |
| Charles Taliaferro, Evidence and Faith: Philosophy and Religion since the Seventeenth Century | Derek S. Jeffreys | 476 |
| Rowan Williams, The Poems of Rowan Williams | David Middleton | 479 |
| Gleanings | ||
| Language and the Varieties of Critical Thinking | Catherine M. Wallace | 483 |