A survey was conducted of 174 senior student affairs officers (SSAOs) at public institutions in the United States concerning their perceptions of the role of campus-based student religious organizations (CbSROs) in the recruitment and retention of students. Eighty-three surveys were returned. In general, the SSAOs perceived campus-based religious…

An examination of various types of cooperation among libraries and librarians within the American Association of Theological Schools and the American Theological Library Association. (Author)

Attitudes of religious institutions toward art are discussed. It is suggested that art is regarded with suspicion because it involves the senses and sensibilities, and that Protestant-English based theology is afraid of sensuality because of its changing, rather than predictable, nature. (RW)

Financial contributions of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries to Artists Affiliated, Inc. are reviewed. (RW)

A service learning partnership between Nebraska Methodist College and Catholic Charities was grounded in social justice and the goals of the federal Healthy People 2010 initiative. Nursing students' projects focused on services for members of the community who are impoverished and in need. (SK)

Introduces several articles that focus on human capital and social cohesion (e.g., effects of learning on economic and social development and the debate over education and social cohesion) and multilateral development banks and religious organizations (e.g., how the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund influence education in developing…

Describes the World Faiths Development Dialogue, which aims to engage a wide-ranging international and national dialogue among faith and development institutions, with the central focus being efforts to combat world poverty. The article highlights two recent events that sought to confront the worlds of development and religion and explores how…

Responses from 23 of 35 leaders of lay minister education programs indicated liberal attitudes on some issues (social justice, women's ordination); 74% were hopeful about the church's future; 17% felt at risk because of their views; 32% experienced little or no congregational support; and 82% felt that the church needed to improve its acceptance…

Summarizes a complex case involving a reopened Minnesota elementary school serving children of the Brethren, a religious group that had earlier bought the school. Although no religious instruction occurred there, two taxpayers successfully sued the district. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed this decision, noting the secular nature of…

Presents the different moments and contents of the strategies of the evangelization process practiced by the Spanish during the conquest and colonization of Cuba, as well as possible reasons for its failure. States that the Indians were enslaved and directed through evangelism toward acculturation. (BT)

In "Renewing Our Commitment to Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools in the Third Millennium," the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB; 2005) calls on Catholic colleges and universities to work with diocesan educational leaders to prepare leaders for Catholic schools. In response, the Creighton University Education…

This volume contains an address by Richard John Neuhaus entitled "Let the Church Be the Church" in which it is asserted that the crisis in Christian social ethics today is a crisis of faith which calls for spiritual, theological, and ethical renewal. The address is a retrospective look at the Vietnam-era debate between Neuhaus and Paul Ramsey,…