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• Running Christian bookstores, with God's help | Owners of His Way stores have found strong market, prompting more locations (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• W.W.J.D. (What Would Jesus Display?) | Use of Christian decor finds favor and debate. (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Sexual ethics:

• Re-orientation issues | La Kenna and Shanicola Green have vowed to defy a court agreement to stop attending the church their mother claimed was brainwashing them (New York Post)
  
  
• 2 sides in fight over gay rights press for votes | Issue to be decided Tuesday (The Miami Herald)
  
  
• Bryant legacy resurfaces in Fla. | Gay groups work to defeat bid to repeal rights ordinance. (The Washington Post)

Church life:

• Carey risks split to save American priest | The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. George Carey, has made an unprecedented intervention into the affairs of the Anglican Church in America by offering a job to a priest who was deposed by his own diocesan bishop (The Times, London)
  
  
• Also: Church's future is in the balance | How the fate of one priest will have huge ramifications (Tim Hames, The Times, London)
  
  
• When preacher soars, let him know | Unless a worship leader receives feedback, how is he to know whether he's reaching the flock or just verbally flailing at a sea of silent windmills? (A.C. Snow, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.)
  
  
• Clergy see signs of spiritual growth | New enthusiasm for Bible studies, commitment. (Boston Herald)
  
  
• A spiritual compass | Determined not to lose their way, families let prayer guide them to grace and communications (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• L.A.'s cathedral of contrasts, controversy | New church reflects city's diversity. (The Washington Post)

Sex abuse scandal:

• Church silent on falsely accused | A sex abuse case against Monsignor Michael Smith Foster has crumbled, but the Boston Archdiocese hasn't come to his rescue despite promises to help restore the reputations of falsely accused priests (Associated Press)
  
  
• $10m Geoghan deal is dwarfed by others | To those tracking the clergy abuse scandal across the nation - especially lawyers with pending cases - the possibility that the Geoghan cases at the epicenter of the billowing sexual abuse scandal might settle for $10 million is stunning and disturbing (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Lawyer waives fee for Pell accuser | The man who has accused Sydney Catholic Archbishop George Pell of sex abuse had been considering pulling out of the inquiry after the Catholic Church refused to pay his legal costs (Sydney Morning Herald)

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