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• Yukon Anglican head offers self as 'flying bishop' for B.C. diocese (Canadian Press)
  
  
• South L.A. church's troubled waters | An ethnically mixed parish is split among those who want its next priest to be African American and those who want a Latino (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Embattled local pastor will return to pulpit at new church | David Tyrell Moore tried to stay away. From the spotlight, from scrutiny—and from the pulpit. It was not to be (The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, Calif.)
  
  
• Maronite bishop announces first synod since 1736 | Bishop Youssef Beshara said that church rules call for holding regular synods, "but because of civil wars in this country," it was not possible to hold such a synod in recent decades (The Daily Star, Lebanon)
  
  
• The growing religious mission to protect God's creation | Churches are clearly going beyond green rhetoric (Environmental News Network)
  
  
• Also: Religion's green roots | Green religious activism is not taking place in a vacuum but reflects principles articulated in many of the world's sacred texts (Environmental News Network)
  
  
• Dispute divides Serbian Orthodox parish | The arrest of the pastor has exposed simmering tensions among older, American-born parishioners and younger, European-born congregants who have joined more recently (Associated Press)

Missions and ministry:

• People of faith do good works | It was Christians who built hospitals, helped the mentally ill, staffed orphanages, brought hope to prisoners, established 100 of our first 110 American universities, and spread literacy (Randy Beaverson, Juneau Empire)
  
  
• Family seeking justice for murdered missionary wants trial in absentia | The New Brunswick relatives of a missionary murdered during the bloody Guatemalan civil war want the suspected killers tried in absentia in Canada as they continue their tireless search for justice in the case (Canadian Press)
  
  
• Friends, neighbors view Burnham home | More than 300 people and nearly 100 companies joined together to build the missionary's 1,700-square-foot Rose Hill home (The Wichita Eagle)
  
  
• Called to serve Hispanics | Venezuelan finds his spiritual place bringing the Gospel to Hispanics (The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va.)

Church and state:

• Sometimes a flag should make you a bit cross-eyed | A church's sanctuary is the wrong place for the American banner—or that of any other nation. (J.R. Labbe, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram)
  
  
• Keeping God in the pledge | The intrusion is minimal enough that these references shouldn't be altered. Neither should the pledge (Editorial, The Oregonian)
  
  
• 9th Circuit didn't diminish God | God has made more comebacks than Michael Jordan. Every time we think he has vanished from the public arena, he manages a return (Bill Cessato, The Wichita Eagle)
  
  
• Ten Commandments challenge awaits ruling | The challenge involving a deposed Ten Commandments display at the Rutherford County Courthouse has been delayed until a federal appeals court rules on a nearly identical case from Kentucky (Associated Press)

Politics and law:

• Confessions | With an intense lobbying campaign, Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick managed to kill in 48 hours a proposed Maryland law that would require priests to report suspected child abuse they heard about in the confessional (Editorial, The Washington Post)
  
  
• Pawlenty salutes faith-based initiatives | Gov. Tim Pawlenty took to the pulpit Thursday night at the NAE convention to endorse President Bush's efforts to funnel public money into faith-based social-action programs (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
  
  

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March (Web-only) 2003, Vol. 47