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"Although Tom Landry was well-known as a religious man across the nation, the evidence of his good works and deep spirituality was not always public," says Katie Menzer in The Dallas Morning News. The former Dallas Cowboys coach died Saturday at age 75. (See a related article from the Associated Press—though almost every obituary for Landry talks about how his Christian faith was more important to him than anything.)

Six Republican Senators asked Attorney General Janet Reno to investigate the organization for intimidating voters. The organization has been telling churches they could lose their tax-exempt status if they distributed Christian Coalition voter guides to their congregations. Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Keeney said the department couldn't find enough voter intimidation to warrant an investigation.

The vice president attended two black churches in Queens, New York, Sunday morning. The pastor of Allen A.M.E. Church, Floyd B. Flake, gave Gore a surprise endorsement. "I don't do endorsements from across the pulpit because I never know who's out there watching the types of laws that govern separation of church and state, but I will say to you this morning and you read it well: This should be the next president of the United States," said Flake, a former congressman who earlier embraced Bill Bradley with Rev. Al Sharpton. (See related coverage in the Associated Press)

"Maybe there are circumstances in which historically one can justify this," said Philip Wogaman, senior pastor at Washington's Foundry Methodist Church during his Sunday sermon. "I'm not sure there are anymore." Wogaman is one of three pastors counseling Clinton after the Lewinsky scandal.

Today's New York Times reports that pulpits across America are empty as the country faces a clergy shortage. "The situation is grave," says a leader in the Episcopal Church.

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