September 2008

In this issue of Touchstone Journal

Volume 26 September, 2008 Number 3

Editorial

• The Ongoing Discussion Over the Church and Same-Gender Marriage

Articles

• An Argument Against The Blessing of Same-Gender Marriages by the Church – Terry Anderson
• An Argument In Support of The Blessing of Same-Gender Marriages by the Church – Douglas Goodwin
• How Does The United Church Interpret The Bible? Part II 1950s-1990s: Tradition and Liberation – Robert C. Fennell

From The Heart About The Heart of the Matter

• I Love The Tradition – Jane Barter Moulaison

Poem

• Sacrament – Donna Kerrigan

Profile

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

Reviews (one document…go to page number)

• White China: Finding The Divine in The Everyday by Molly Wolf – Catherine Taylor – page 60
• The Last Week: A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus’ Final Week in Jerusalem by John Dominic Crossan and Marcus Borg – James Christie – page 62
• eucharist with a small “e.” by Miriam Therese Winter – William S. Kervin – page 64
• god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens – Alan Reynolds – page 66