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• One church's apology to another for sins past | Foundry and Asbury unite to put racial history to rest (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Charitable flock answer rector's heartfelt prayer | Parishioners concerned that their vicar would have to wait a year for a heart bypass raised £15,000 for him to have the operation privately. (The Times, London)
  
  
• Church flextime: Selling out or saving world? | With the weekend time crunch, 'there's nothing sacred about Sunday morning anymore.' (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• A home away from home | Churches keep Korean immigrants in touch with traditions, each other (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Megachurches wrap religion in big package | Houses of worship styled after hangouts for younger generation (The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.)
  
  
• The hymns were hers | How Victorian women gave the Anglican church its greatest hits. (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Workers stay up late to worship | Far from home, camp residents find comfort in late-night gatherings (The News-Press, Ft. Myers, Fla.)
  
  
• Modernization vs. tradition as Egan halts church facelift | Renovation at St. Ignatius Loyola unwarranted and harmful to the church's tradition, says cardinal (The New York Times)
  
  
• Church protesters standing on tradition | Group opposes modernization of parish in North Hollywood, but pastor says there is no set agenda for changes. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Monks protest proposal for a firing range next door | Benedictines say police gunfire would disrupt their quiet lifestyle. The department says other options are impractical. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Pints in the pews | Redundant churches are now being put to some curious uses. It's better than demolishing them, anyway (The Economist)
  
  
• Workers stay up late to worship | Far from home, camp residents find comfort in late-night gatherings (The News-Press, Ft. Myers, Fla.)
  
  

Sermon stealing:

• Bible-bashers caught in a Web | Why should churchgoers be subject to droning deliveries from the pulpit when they could just as easily access material tailored to their interests directly and at a time of their choosing from the Net? (Chris McGillion, The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• An era when the art of the sermon has declined | The ease with which one can assemble an instant sermon from the words of others is leading ministers into temptation (The New York Times)
  
  

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