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Bible:

• New Bible includes gender-neutral references | Some church leaders voice concern (KHBS, Ft. Smith, Ark.)
  
  
• Bibles popular with deploying Marines | The uniforms Marines are wearing to the Middle East aren't the only things that are camouflaged (North County Times, Escondido, Calif.)

Theology:

• Pastor's question about Jesus became a big deal | Misunderstanding stirred up doctrinal issues (Toledo [Oh.] Blade)
  
  
• How much does God know? | A theology group may move to expel two members for asking the question (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• Provocative points can be proved peacefully | Patrick Madrid, who makes his living as an apologist for the Catholic faith, insists there is a way to discuss and even defend one's beliefs without disturbing the peace (The Toledo Blade)

European Union:

• Europe debates whether to admit God to Union | A group of politicians will meet to debate whether or not the European Union's future constitution should include a reference to the divine (The New York Times)
  
  
• Sacred mysteries | How "In God We Trust" got on American currency, and why it's not on the Euro (Christopher Howse, The Daily Telegraph, London)

Crime:

• O'Hair death mastermind dies in prison | David R. Waters, who masterminded the kidnapping and murder of atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair and her family in 1995, succumbed to lung cancer last week (San Antonio Express-News)
  
  
• Also: Inmate convicted in atheist's plot dies in prison (Associated Press)

• Parsonsburg church heals after vandalism | Despite the hate messages written on the church walls, pastor Rick Parrott said the incident has had the reverse effect, bringing people in the area closer together (Daily Times, Salisbury, Md.)
  
  
• Man jailed for posing as priest at funeral | Trevor Norkett, 42, had been banned under a Sex Offenders' Order from dressing in religious garments after posing as a clergyman and sexually abusing a nine-year-old boy in 1999 (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Man says he drove into woman at bus stop because she is black | Says Jesus told him to do it (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  
  
• Pair apologize for defacing Jesus statue | A man and woman who vandalized a baby Jesus statue in a church's outdoor nativity marched through town with a donkey to apologize (Associated Press)

Clergy sex abuse:

• Va. priest pleads guilty to abusing boy | But John P. Blankenship avoided prison sentence (Associated Press)
  
  
• An abuse of the law | The prime obligation of church leaders is not to contest the suits but to settle all legitimate claims of abuse (Editorial, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Deadline on abuse cases at issue | Supreme Judicial Court to hear appeal on three-year limit (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Judge bars Oregon bishop from transferring assets under threat of sex-abuse lawsuit | Bishop Robert Vasa says he has been working to transfer ownership of properties to the individual churches that use them, and never intended to avoid any future liabilities (Associated Press)
  
  
• Church minister 'abused inmates' | Neville Anthony Husband, who is charged with 16 sexual offences, is now a minister in the United Reformed Church, and responsible for two churches in Gateshead (BBC)
  
  
• Help agency monitors molestation allegations | Religious Community Services, an agency in Pinellas County that helps the poor and homeless, is monitoring allegations that its director molested two teenage boys decades ago, when he was a priest and Catholic school principal in Nashville (St. Petersburg Times)

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