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Billy Graham Texas mission:

• Power from pulpit energizes thousands | About 300,000 people are expected to fill Texas Stadium on Thursday through Sunday to hear a man whom many regard as the "evangelical Protestant pope." (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• More than 30 years later, evangelist returns to Texas Stadium | More than three decades ago, the Rev. Billy Graham conducted the first event held there (Associated Press)
  
  
• 'A special man for a special time' | Billy Graham leads mission at Texas Stadium (Star-Telegram)
  
  
• Graham's crusade returns to Texas Stadium (Cox/The Washington Times)
  
  
• Graham hopes to lead mission nightly | Says he is feeling better than he has in months (Star-Telegram)
  
  
• Award-winning singers in mission lineup | Randy Travis joins Michael W. Smith, Kirk Franklin, Jars of Clay, CeCe Winans and Caedmon's Call (Star-Telegram)
  
  
• Timeless Graham offers us another ride | God is giving us one more chance—one more chance to see the greatest American spiritual leader of the 20th century (Bud Kennedy, Star-Telegram)
  
  
• Phone call from Billy Graham a testament to his humility (Jim Jones, Star-Telegram)
  
  
• Graham's finances an open book | Today, after Graham's more than 50 years in ministry, Christians and non-Christians know the North Carolina preacher's reputation for financial integrity (Ft. Worth [Tex.] Star-Telegram)

Church of England:

• 'Heretic' primate faces backlash | Evangelical fringe groups in Church of England want resignation of next Archbishop of Canterbury because he ordained homosexual priest (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• I believe in Bible, insists Williams | Says he accepts traditional church teaching on adultery and sex before marriage (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Williams is facing pay revolt over view on gays | The clergy at one of Britain's richest parishes are to refuse their Church salaries in protest (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Clergy 'anxious' about attitude to gays | The next Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, was warned yesterday that well over a quarter of the clergy, including a number of senior bishops, are deeply concerned about his liberal views on homosexuality (The Daily Telegraph, London)

Sexual ethics:

• Vatican contemplates a ban on gay priests | No action to bar homosexuals from seminaries is likely anytime soon, a senior Vatican official said (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Doctors group to vote on homosexual adoption | The American Academy of Family Physicians will consider two resolutions approving same-sex adoption and domestic-partner benefits (The Washington Times)
  
  
• House of Lords could block gay adoption plan | Tories say marriage is being downgraded in bill (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Modest, style-conscious and frustrated no more | Fashion experts say families are tired of having only provocative choices when shopping for dressy girls' clothes (Los Angeles Times)

Politics and law:

• Devout whiz-kid seen as Tory savior | Tim Montgomerie is the face of compassionate Conservatism (The Observer, London)
  
  
• Christian Coalition rallies for Israel in comeback bid | Group fervent opposes any kind of Palestinian state (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Just say "not until we're married" | Legislating morality and undermining HIV/AIDS prevention (Joanne Mariner, FindLaw.com)
  
  
• Polygamy issue raised in Ariz. Race | Richard Mahoney, an independent trailing badly in the polls, has ditched mainstream issues and is trying to woo voters by accusing the front-runners of being soft on multiple marriages (Associated Press)
  
  

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October (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46