"The church has not only the right, but the duty, to be the church of Jesus Christ...The job of the priest isn't to give you the answers to all of your questions. But the priest is there to help you frame the questions and point you toward the one with the answers. The goal of the priest is that you might enter into a mature relationship with God. We believe in the priesthood of all believers. Have you taken to heart the implications of your own priesthood?..."

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Editor's Reflections
  by WILLIAM DAVID SPENCER 
• House Churches
  by KEVIN GILES
• Poem: I Stand at the Gate
  by LINDA GUDERIAN 
• Incarnation, Trinity, and the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood
  by JOHN JEFFERSON DAVIS  
• C.S. Lewis on Gender
  by ANN LOADES    
• In the Name of Jesus: Gender, Ministry, and the Mediation of Christ
  by JOEL SCANDRETT
• BOOK REVIEW: Kenneth Bailey's Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes
  by CYNTHIA LONG WESTFALL