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The Creating Confidence in Clergy Wives course inGuildford, England, tells wives of church leaders to daily intone the mantra, "I am a strong, loving, creative woman and God loves me." "The Church has treated women very badly," says the 73-year-old leader of the course. "Christian women have been taught a lot about humility, subservience and human kindness to the umpteenth degree. But they have to learn how to say 'no.' … Clergy wives often have a deep sense of isolation and are often bound by the idea that they must not show favoritism in the parish by developing particular friendships."

Back in January, newspapers were filled with reports that 100,000 Southern Baptists would converge on Chicago like an invading army. The Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago said it asked Southern Baptists to refrain from visiting Chicago, warning that the plans could "unwittingly abet the designs of those who seek to provoke hate crimes by fomenting faith-based prejudice." The initial 100,000 count was unfounded and a result of miscommunication. Southern Baptist leaders in Chicago now say that at the height of this year's evangelistic efforts, about 5,000 volunteers will meet on the shores of Lake Michigan. Only about half of those will be from out of state.

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