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• Also: Bishops could lose their seats in the Lords | Established church may lose its privileges (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• A question of belief | Should the Church tolerate a pick'n'mix approach to the Creed? (The Times, London)
  
  
• Elderly bishops are revolting | For today's bishops, the moment of transition is not consecration, but retirement (Don Cupitt, The Guardian, London)

Eastern Orthodox:

• Orthodox tradition, the American way | New leader of Orthodox unlikely to change church (The Orlando Sentinel, via Newsday)
  
  
• Between South and East | St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church in Brookside, Alabama, worships with a southern drawl and a Russian accent (Associated Press)

Mission & Ministry:

• 'Missionaries' raise suspicion | Some dude's just walking around McComb, Mississippi, saying he's a missionary—but instead of sharing the gospel he's asking for cash (Enterprise-Journal)
  
  
• Fair's prayer booth offers spiritual comfort | Midway tent volunteers come from 10 churches (The Baltimore Sun)

Health:

• National Council of Churches of Kenya's AIDS idea a loser | It is appalling that the NCCK should even think of asking doctors to break the confidentiality of HIV-positive patients (Editorial, The Nation, Nairobi, Kenya)
  
  
• Village's prayers answered by surgery on conjoined twins | Jubilation sweeps Guatemalan birthplace of the girls, where God is thanked for a miracle (Los Angeles Times)

Pop culture:

• Gibson follows his Passion | Mel Gibson has scouted Italian locations for "Passion," a film that would explore the life of Christ, and he's talked to Jim Caviezel about the leading role (Variety)
  
  
• 'U'-Rated Edits in for Fight | Directors Guild of America takes aim at businesses that edit videos for viewers (The Salt Lake Tribune)
  
  
• Earlier: Family-Friendly Titanic Irks Hollywood (Christianity Today, Jan. 11, 1999)
  
  
• Earlier: Everybody's a Director | CleanFlicks and Movie Mask give film fans an alternative (Christianity Today, Mar. 25, 2002)
  
  
• CS Lewis books to hit silver screen | Movie rights to works sold off. (The Belfast Telegraph)

Other stories of interest:

• Religion news in brief | NCC says it's recovering financially, Methodists and Episcopalians talk, Mayor apologizes for arrests of preachers, and other stories (Associated Press)
  
  
• Hoping to get religion | An obscure group of Mexicans insist that they're really Jews (Newsweek)
  
  
• Theism through biology | The religious right has one thing correct: Its ideas about education are not significantly present in public school. But God is. (Nathan Black, The Denver Post)
  
  
• Wesley actor finds help to keep tradition going | Bill Vance has portrayed Methodist founder since 1975 (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Controversial billboard defaced | Artscape piece pictured Jesus as beer pitchman (The Baltimore Sun, via Obscure Store)
  
  
• An unbeautiful mind | John Polkinghorne, science, religion, and self-deception (The New Republic)
  
  
• Earlier: Bottom-Up Apologist | John Polkinghorne—particle physicist, Gifford lecturer, Templeton Prize-winner, and parish priest. (Christianity Today, May 24, 2002)
  
  
• The very American Stanley Hauerwas | Hauerwas' utopian view of the Church as self-sufficient and antimodern needs a little Niebuhrian realism (Stephen H. Webb, First Things)
  
  
• Reparations then and now | The call for reparations for slavery ignores the Civil War (Allen C. Guelzo, First Things)
  
  
• Swapping 'religion' for 'postsecularism' | Anyone who doesn't recognize the power of "post" in intellectual strategy just hasn't been watching. It can gel loosely related phenomena into a major intellectual movement or cultural vanguard without having to be very precise about what unites them or what they are rather than what they are not (Peter Steinfels, The New York Times)
  
  
• Bound by the Bible Belt | Atheists sometimes face rejection or ridicule in our predominantly Christian culture (The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.)
  
  
• Scholars are all agog over digital Gutenbergs | Scholars who work with the Gutenberg Bible at the University of Texas don't have to travel to Austin anymore (Chicago Tribune)

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