Click here for the September 2006 edition of Touchstone Journal.

In this issue:

Editorial
The Short Cuts of Torture Beckon

Articles
Torture and The Body of Christ – Mark Lewis Taylor
Reflections on Rural Ministry in the Early 21st Century – John H. Young
The Ethics of Excellence, Part 2 – Ross Smillie
The Recovery of Testimony – Edwin Searcy

Profile
Ray Hord: “Prophet Evangelist” of the United Church – Sandra Beardsall

Reviews
Memoirs of God: History, Memory, and the Experience of the Divine in Ancient Israel by Mark S. Smith – Arthur Walker-Jones
Introducing Ecofeminist Theologies by Heather Eaton – Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd
Religion, Politics, and the Christian Right by Mark Lewis Taylor – Don Schweitzer
The Kingdom is Always But Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch by Christopher H. Evans – Tony Thompson