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• Also: Williams rallies divided synod | Standing ovation for archbishop, but not from evangelicals (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Also: General Synod gives Archbishop standing ovation after plea for church factions to unite | The length of the ovation led Dr Rowan Williams to indicate that the synod members should resume their seats, although some delegates from the evangelical wing remained sitting throughout (The Independent, London)
  
  
• No third way | Williams must battle for his beliefs (Editorial, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Endless chatter breaks vow of silence over that subject | Archbishop of Canterbury warns against 'luxury of separation' as synod excludes debate over the aborted appointment of Canon John (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Gay row will return to haunt church | Call for unity may be unavailing as a leading evangelical called into question whether the theologian at the heart of the church's gay bishop row should be allowed to remain in his present post (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Forget the soap opera | With courage, we can turn differences within the church into a source of strength (Rowan Williams, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Archbishop in appeal for end to division over gay clerics | Attempts by church officials to postpone a debate failed at the weekend as divisions between liberals and evangelicals resurfaced during a meeting of the church's ruling body in York (Financial Times, U.K.)
  
  
• Evangelicals have become this century's witch burners | The Church of England faces a struggle with its own Militant Tendency (Giles Fraser, The Guardian, London)
  
  

• Gay bishop row descends into chaos as synod is halted | Gay rights campaigners storm governing body in protest at 'sexual apartheid' (The Independent, London)
  
  

• Top clerics attack evangelicals as gay bishop row reignites | Senior members of the clergy warned that the evangelical group behind the row over the Canon Jeffrey John affair posed a 'direct challenge' to the authority of the Church of England (The Observer, London)
  
  
• Williams refused gay bishop's offer to resign | Archbishop made 'complete change of mind' after renewed pressure (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  

Jeffrey John speaks:

• Canon John writes to supporters | In a letter to the local newspaper (Reading Chronicle, England)
  
  
• Canon John's plea to supporters | Breaking his silence for the first time since withdrawing his nomination, Canon John said that many people had told him they were tempted to quit the Church in disgust at his treatment (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Gay canon tells of huge support (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Gay priest thanks supporters | The gay priest who rejected the post of Bishop of Reading has thanked the public for an "avalanche of kindness" shown towards him (BBC)
  
  

Same-sex marriages:

• Methodists divided over same-sex unions | Battle lines have begun to form within the United Methodist Church over a recent endorsement of same-sex unions by the church's regional governing body (The Daily Times, Ottawa)
  
  
• Also: Local church leaders differ over gay issue | Local United Methodist Church leaders have lashed out against a recent measure by the church's regional governing body officially endorsed same-sex marriages and the ordination of homosexual ministers (The Daily Times, Ottawa)
  
  
• The stakes | Why we need marriage (Maggie Gallagher, National Review Online)
  
  
• Gay 'marriages' ahead | High court decisions in Canada and the United States and a pending lawsuit in Massachusetts will finally force "gay marriage" to the top of the nation's legal and cultural agenda (The Washington Times)
  
  

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