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Pt. 1. Searching for Jesus in local congregations. Emerging model: a visit to Jacob's Well -- The church downtown: strategies for urban ministry -- Africentric church: a visit to Chicago's Trinity UCC -- Synchronized worship: the rise of the multicampus church -- It's simul justus, not the tattoos: a profile of Nadia Bolz-Weber and House for All Sinners and Saints -- pt. 2. Searching for Jesus in popular evangelicalism. The new monastics: alternative Christian communities -- Be happy: the health and wealth gospel of Joel Osteen -- En-raptured: will we be "Left Behind"? -- Dinosaurs in the garden: a visit to the Creation Museum -- Jeremiah Wright, evangelicals' brother in Christ -- The almost formerly important: lessons of the old mainline for the new mainline -- pt. 3. Searching for Jesus in the church in Africa. Perilous presence: Christians in Uganda -- Holy space in Uganda -- How the church grew in South Sudan -- Surprises in Sudan: reading the Bible with Southern Sudanese Christians -- The muse of church revival in Sudan -- Why haven't they left? Stability in the church of Sudan -- University presidents in the Congo: how to stop a war -- Leadership as dancing the dance of all your people -- pt. 4. Searching for Jesus among Roman Catholics. What about Mary? Protestants and Marian devotion -- On the grace-filled life -- Santuary: Mary, Methodists, and immigration -- Joseph: stepfather to God -- Mass appeal? Attending a Latin liturgy -- Dare to discipline? John Kerry and Communion -- Going Catholic: six journeys to Rome -- Fathers and sons at the beach -- pt. 5. Searching for Jesus in popular culture. What you're looking for: worship at the U2charist -- Saint Lebowski -- Messge of light: an interview with Seth Avett -- The banjo lesson: the Carolina Chocolate Drops -- The difficulty and glory of collaboration -- pt. 6. Searching for Jesus in sports. Holy hoops: the quasi-religious basketball rivalry between Duke and North Carolina -- Duke basketball: you are what you do regularly, excellently -- Invisible, sticky leaders -- The last guy on the bench: Casey Peters -- Duke football: how to react to a failure that's not your fault? -- Marathons: straining toward holiness: together -- Marathons as grace or heresy? -- pt. 7. Searching for Jesus in Christian institutions. Hierarchy of holiness -- Outrageous ambition in East Africa -- Campuses of the kingdom -- Cells in the body of Christ -- Luring a campus into the faith -- Academic diversity through church affiliation -- pt. 8. Searching for Jesus amidst the task of writing. Why religious journalism is boring -- Paying attention -- Abounding in hope -- Joining the communion of saints and writing the unwritable word.

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