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• Also: Williams: Speak out with passion (The Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Anti-war demo at Archbishop ceremony | Enthronement also draws evangelical protesters. (Evening Standard, London)
  
  
• Also: Canterbury's day of glory and protest | In his sermon during the enthronement as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, in a cathedral with some experience of turbulent priests, the first Welshman to lead the world's 70 million Anglicans told a congregation of religious and political leaders that he would continue to speak out on affairs of state (The Times, London)
  
  
• Earlier: Archbishop faces anti-gay protest | Critics of the new Archbishop of Canterbury's liberal stance on homosexuality, some of them wearing black armbands, planned to mount a protest outside his enthronement. (The Telegraph, London)
  
  
• New archbishop faces hurdles to Anglican unity | As global leader, he faces yet another challenge - a potential split in the Communion that his predecessor, George Carey, termed "of crisis proportions." (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Enthronement in Welsh garments | The Welshman to be enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury for over 1,000 years will be dressed in robes that bear the symbols of Welsh history and tradition. (BBC)
  
  
• Archbishop's enthronement sees a religious divide emerge (Financial Times)

Pop culture:

• Dixie's defenders fire off uncivil words | The films that are most vociferously defended after they receive a bad review are those that are pitched to people who mostly stay at home because they disapprove of the violence and profanity found in many modern movies. (John Beifuss, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis)
  
  
• Mission possible | Audio Adrenaline wants fans to share their faith with everyone they know. (The Wichita Eagle)

Life ethics:

• Abortion foes plan offensive | Abortion opponents, emboldened by changes on the national front, plan to introduce legislation today that would place new limits on abortions in Washington, including a 24-hour waiting period and an end to public funding (The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.)

War with Iraq:

• Silent evangelical support of Bush's proposed war against Iraq | The Bush administration has strong support from evangelical Christians, who believe war is justified, but don't take public stands (Morning Edition, NPR)
  
  
• Readers respond to the Prayer on the brink of war (Gregory Elder, Redlands [Calif.] Daily Facts)
  
  
• Against widespread clergy protest, some lay Christians justify war against Iraq | Jean Bethke Elshtain, a Protestant professor of social ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and Michael Novak, a Roman Catholic philosopher at the American Enterprise Institute, each opposed the Vietnam War. But each has argued recently that a conflict with Iraq meets the demands of Christianity's "just war" doctrine—the theological tests for deciding the morality of war that date back to the fifth century. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Clergy set Hill vigil against Iraq war | Without access to the White House, the group of American, British, Scottish, French and German clergy are holding a briefing and prayer vigil on Capitol Hill today (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Religious leaders are split over Bush's war policy | Despite his moral convictions, denominations lack unanimity (Philadelphia Daily News)
  
  
• In Kuwait, baptism before the gunfire | Faced with threat of war in Iraq, many marines turn to religion (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Evangelical Christians call for peace | "We believe that war or violence is almost always the worst solution for resolving conflict." (The Star, Malaysia)
  
  

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February (Web-only) 2003, Vol. 47