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• Doubts crowd in on Wesley's heirs | Methodism marks birth of founder amid debate on future (The Guardian)
  
  
• Methodism a 'sleeping giant' as founder's 300th birthday marked (Associated Press)
  
  
• Salvation on horseback | How John Wesley helped create the modern world (Roy Hattersley, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• The party faithful | Roy Hattersley reflects on the legacy of John Wesley, 18th-century preacher, founder of Methodism, passionate advocate of respectability and an architect of modern British politics (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Methodists to consider unity with Anglicans | If the covenant is agreed by the Methodists and by the Church of England, a commission will be set up by both Churches to implement it, reporting back in 2005 (The Times, London)
  
  
• Methodists mark tricentennial of Wesley's birth (The Toledo Blade)
  
  
• Visit from Wesley warms hearts | Columbia resident Howard Burnham, a native of England, transformed himself Sunday into John Wesley, the founder of Methodism (The State, Columbia, S.C.)
  
  
• Earlier: Wesley at 300 | Anniversary of founder's birth gives Methodists cause to reflect (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Earlier still: The Wesleys | Their struggle for perfection strained their relationship and sparked revival on two continents (Christian History, Issue 69)
  
  
• Also: The Shocking Truth About John Wesley | A visit to the cradle of Methodism (John D. Spalding, Books & Culture, March/April 2003)

Denominational meetings:

• Southern Baptists eye families at meeting | At this year's meeting, the denomination is expected to consider cutting $125,000 of its annual $425,000 payment to the Baptist World Alliance over differences with moderates (Associated Press)
  
  
• 'Culture of perversions' denounced | Southern Baptist preachers get fired up for convention (Houston Chronicle)
  
  
• Baptists focus on saving families | Southern Baptists will begin asking members at their national convention this week to sign pledges to follow seven pillars of a "divorce-proof" marriage, including moral purity, marital fidelity and support of the local church (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Tex.)
  
  
• Pastors, don't fail families | The truth is, Southern Baptists are usually not trying to tell everyone else how to live. More often than not, they're talking to one another (David Waters, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis)
  
  
• Speaker blasts Islam at Baptist gathering | One year after the Rev. Jerry Vines generated a year's worth of controversy by calling the founder of Islam ''a demon-possessed pedophile,'' Ergun Caner, a theology professor from Criswell College in Dallas, picked up where Vines left off (The Tennessean)
  
  
• Church prepares to urge strong marriages, families (The Birmingham News)
  
  
• Southern Baptists launch faith plan | S.C.-born proposal will be focal point of annual convention, which begins today (The State, Columbia, S.C.)
  
  
• Gay Baptists hope for best | Won't accept church doctrine on their lifestyle (The Arizona Republic)
  
  
• N.D. pastor calls ad hoc Lutheran conference | Meeting will address church's position on sexuality and gay pastors (Grand Forks Herald)
  
  
• Why the next bishops' move could be by a Scotswoman | How one tiny change to church law could signal a huge step for humankind (Richard Holloway, The Sunday Herald, Glasgow)

Billy Graham:

• Thousands gather for Billy Graham crusade | "The situation in the Middle East, in my judgment, has no answer except the coming of Christ," he said, also asking for prayer for victims of AIDS and other diseases (Associated Press)
  
  

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