VOLUME 26            SEPTEMBER, 2008            NUMBER 3

Editorial

The Ongoing Discussion Over the Church
and Same-Gender Marriage .................................................. 3

Articles

An Argument Against The Blessing of Same-Gender
Marriages by the Church
Terry Anderson ............................................................... 5

An Argument In Support of The Blessing of Same-Gender
Marriages by the Church
Douglas Goodwin ......................................................... 14

How Does The United Church Interpret The Bible?
Part II 1950s-1990s: Tradition and Liberation
Robert C. Fennell .......................................................... 31

From The Heart About The Heart of the Matter

I Love The Tradition
Jane Barter Moulaison .................................................. 43

Poem

Sacrament
Donna Kerrigan ............................................................ 47

Profile

John Webster Grant: Historian of Religion in Canada,
Churchman, Hymn Writer and Translator (1919-2006)
Marguerite Van Die ....................................................... 48

Reviews (one document...go to page number)

White China: Finding The Divine in The Everyday
by Molly Wolf
Catherine Taylor ........................................................... 60

The Last Week: A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus’
Final Week in Jerusalem
by John Dominic Crossan and Marcus Borg
James Christie ............................................................... 62

eucharist with a small “e.”
by Miriam Therese Winter
William S. Kervin ........................................................ 64

god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens
Alan Reynolds .............................................................. 66