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Liberia:

• Where angels will not tread | Liberia is rid of one despotic president, but its innate corruption could taint the most saintly of leaders (Fred Bridgland, The Sunday Herald, Glasgow, Scotland)
  
  
• Area pastor leading effort to aid Liberians | Rev. Michael Hollinger of Tallmadge is organizing Evangelical churches to get funds to their brethren (The Beacon Journal, Akron, Oh.)
  
  
• Liberian Archbishop calls for U.N. to send more troops | The Roman Catholic archbishop called for additional troops to help save Liberia from those who want to rule it (The New York Times)
  
  
• Presbyterian is part of effort to help Liberia | Louisville-based worker to assess best ways to help war-torn nation (The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.)
  
  

Church buildings and grounds:

• Sacred mysteries: St. Gaudi? | It has been a-building for nearly a century, but now we learn that its architect, Antonio Gaudi (1852-1926) might be declared a saint before his great work is done (Christopher Howse, The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Aging church buildings face a growing maintenance crisis | The maintenance crisis for churches has worsened in the last decade as urban populations shift and congregations decline (Religion News Service)
  
  
• Church files suit for okay to build | Long Grove clash over construction in federal court (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Also: Church will sue Long Grove | Predominantly Korean Christian congregation can't build on property it owns (Daily Herald, Chicago suburbs)
  
  
• Also: Korean church sues to build in Long Grove (Chicago Tribune)
  
  

Church life:

• In summer, more clergy use picnic tables as pulpits | Leaders in a number of religious organizations are exploring whether the best way to reach out might be to lighten up, especially in the warm months when regular church life takes something of a breather (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Learning from interim pastors' lives | If an interim pastor feels free to dispense with meetings and focus on what he believes is most important, why can't a permanent pastor? Why can't anyone who feels imprisoned by their job? (Ken Garfield, The Charlotte Observer)
  
  
• Five bucks, and change | Fred Caldwell says the superficial news reports focused more on the novelty of a black paying whites to pray and less on his real concern: the racism of religion (Editorial, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Coptic Christians' leader visits N.O. congregation | Ritual thrilling to little church (The Times-Picayune, New Orleans)
  
  
• Also: Leader of Coptic faith blesses Mauldin church (Greenville News, S.C.)
  
  
• New pastors could revive bully pulpit | Today, as the Carolinas are hit hard by unemployment, schools are being resegregated and the war in Iraq drags on, a local historian asked me: Where are those church bully pulpits? (Don Hudson, The Charlotte Observer)
  
  
• Look what the church dragged in | All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale just started monthly services for pets and their loved ones, even providing doggie treats for Rover at communion time (The Miami Herald)
  
  
• Army appoints new chief of chaplains | Maj. Gen. David Hicks, 61, who was previously deputy chief of chaplains, has almost 30 years of Army chaplain service (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Pell for cardinal? Rumor mill says yes | Sydney Archbishop George Pell may be promoted to cardinal as early as October, according to speculation in Italy (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  

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August (Web-only) 2003, Vol. 47