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• Conservatives will walk if vote on gay ministers passes | Conservative forces within the Uniting Church may split from the 26-year-old multidenominational federation if a resolution permitting the ordination of practicing homosexuals is passed at its triennial national assembly (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Leader faces united world | A former geophysicist and exorcist who speaks in "tongues" and believes in life on other planets will be the next leader of the Uniting Church of Australia (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  
• Assembly delegates urged to accept diversity of gay clergy (The Sydney Morning Herald\)
  
  
• Uniting Church urged to confront gay clergy issue (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  

Other religions and interfaith relations:

• Malawi's Christians want compensation for damages by Muslims | Muslims went on anti-Christian rampage after deportation of al Qaeda suspects (African Church Information Service)
  
  
• Earlier: Malawi Muslims Riot Against Christians (Weblog, Christianity Today, June 30)
  
  
• Minister brings anti-Muslim message to N.J. | The Rev. Dr. Norman L. Geisler doesn't like Islam. The president of a seminary in Charlotte, N.C., has said repeatedly that the world's second-largest religion is dangerously violent. (NorthJersey.com)
  
  
• Christians, Jews gather to support Israel | More than 700 Christians and Jews join together at rally (The Virginian-Pilot)
  
  
• Same God, different house | Maybe you can't go everywhere looking for God. But you can go somewhere else, someplace other than where you normally go to find God (David Waters, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis)
  
  
• Pagan alliance plans festival | Co-founders say Earth-based religion often misunderstood, followers fear stigma (The Indianapolis Star)
  
  

Church life:

• Fledgling organists go to church to learn | A musical summer camp for all things pipe organ has found its way to New York, where the city's choice instruments can be found in local churches.(The New York Times)
  
  
• For minister, his church is home, in many ways | Glad Tidings Tabernacle Church is not your average church, and Carl Keyes is not your average clergyman (The New York Times)
  
  
• Church dream is town's headache | Congregation plan to buy office park raises tax concerns (The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.)
  
  
• Where nothing is sacred | Many Czechs avoid organized religion. With communism and strained ties to the church as a past, the future of belief is iffy (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Pastor at helm of alcohol fight aims to keep focus on pulpit | "I haven't preached on it," the Rev. Mark Washington said of the Roanoke Civic Center's application for a new alcohol license (The Roanoke Times, Va.)
  
  

SUV backers respond to Jesus campaign:

• Pro-SUV group answers detractors | Organization hopes to run more ads in the future (AdWeek)
  
  

• S.U.V. owners fight back (The New York Times)
  
  
• Jesus passes the SUV driving test (Financial Times, U.K.)
  
  

Crime:

• Priest said to have supplied alcohol to Gaines | A priest provided alcohol to 19-year-old Billy Gaines and other underage members of the University of Pittsburgh football team shortly before Gaines fell to his death from a church catwalk, a witness who attended the cookout said yesterday (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Minister honors five slain relatives | Minister Eddie Harper, whose mother, sister, two nephews and niece were slain Tuesday, brought congregants to their feet as they clapped, prayed and sang at the tiny Church of Christ (Associated Press)
  
  
• Plan of action and comfort | Black ministers channel anger into purpose after boy's shooting death (The Denver Post)
  
  

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