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• Auditor Doubts Crosswalk.com Can Keep Going | Ernst & Young cites company's recurring operating losses and its limited working capital (Dow Jones)

Theology:

• 'Female God' prayer gets clergy hot under collar | Official Anglican publication's "insipient feminism" calls Holy Spirit a "she" (Yorkshire Post, U.K.)
  
  
• Theologian stresses need for accountability, foundations | Ravi Zacharias speaks in Flint, Michigan (The Flint Journal)
  
  
• Wise move by Metropolitan Ministries | Metropolitan Ministries' decision to open its board of directors to people of all faiths who profess a commitment to help this area's hungry and homeless is a welcome change of heart that promises to make the organization better able to fulfill its mission (Editorial, The Tampa Tribune)
  
  
• Metropolitan Ministries dumps Christianity rule (WTSP-TV)

Pop culture:

• Beam me up, Rev. Scotty | Star Trek's religious themes boldly go where no TV show has gone before (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Joshua needs saving | Bringing the Savior to a small town doesn't guarantee salvation. (Westword, Denver)
  
  
• Also: Holy Hollywood | Billionaire Philip Anschutz is poised to become a PG-movie mogul. (Westword, Denver)
  
  
• Also: Phil's big scores | Anshutz's domain stretches from kids' theater to pro sports. (Westword, Denver)

Catholicism:

• These waters run deep | Baptism by immersion, for centuries nearly unknown to Roman Catholics, is being revived. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Pope names six potential saints | John Paul now has beatified 1,288 candidates for sainthood in his 23 years as pontiff (Associated Press)
  
  
• Pope sympathizes with the elderly | Says he is urging more appreciation of the elderly, "not only out of pastoral care, but also because I personally share the condition." (Associated Press)
  
  
• The Mission is on a mission | And Cardinal Mahony has been its target for years (LA Weekly)
  
  
• A pie in the face of the Catholic hierarchy | As a woman, I feel marginalized by the church. But a bake-sale revolt led by elderly church ladies near Chicago has given me hope. (Celeste Arbogast, Salon.com)
  
  
• Russian Catholics See Change Soon | Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II said he was ready to meet with Pope John Paul (Associated Press)

Other stories of interest:

• 2 couples turn lives around in program | Pastor Shirley Holloway's House of Help-City of Hope program in Southwest Washington helped them get off drugs, they say (The Washington Times)
  
  
• The real heal? | Does televangelist Benny Hinn work miracles? (Religion News Service)
  
  
• Local man aims to help free people from porn addiction | Terry Ermoian runs Pure Freedom Ministry out of his home (Waco [Tex.] Tribune-Herald)
  
  
• Mexico's mysterious saint | Did Juan Diego even exist? (Associated Press)
  
  
• In Boston, resolve trumps 'the race card' | There are any number of ways to measure the Rev. Eugene Rivers' effectiveness in curtailing Boston's gang wars. (The Cincinnati Post)
  
  
• Archbishop brings 'an aura of goodness' | Greek Orthodox leader visits Baltimore to mark charity's 10 years of work. (The Baltimore Sun)

• Implantable chips ahoy | 'Mark of the beast' or sign of the times? (Bill Berkowitz, WorkingForChange)
  
  
• A Bible for the Inuit | After 23 years, the huge task of translation into Inuktitut is complete (The National Post, Canada)

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