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3. Christians risk lives to donate livers | Members of Catford-based Jesus Christians are considering donating parts of their liver but the operation is so risky, the death rate is one in 200, they cannot find a hospital to do it (This is Local London)
   
   
4. Spirituality protects against end-of-life despair | Among people with less than three months to live, U.S. investigators found that those with a strong sense of spiritual well-being were less likely than others to feel hopeless, want to die, or consider suicide (Reuters)

1. Amish on the rise | Within a year or two there will be 200,000 of them—"Their number doubles every 20 years." (UPI)
   
   
2. New divisions in churches revive heresy trials | Today's church courts don't send people to the stake, of course. But they can strip clergy of their ministerial authority and of the paycheck with which they support their families (Chicago Tribune)
   
   
3. Earlier: Christian History Corner: Heresy, Salvation, and Jack the Ripper | Why heresy trials will have to do, until something better comes along (Christianity Today, Feb. 28, 2003)
   
   
4. Changing the face of service | Local priest strives to bring all religious sects together (Savannah Morning News)
   
   
5. Greeks exclaim their love of God | There's more to the ancient Greek Orthodox Church than big, fat weddings and food festivals (David Waters, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis)
   
   
6. Church, cable station end ties | Church wanted its pastor featured more prominently on Christian station (Honolulu Advertiser)
   
   
7. In northern woods, churchgoing faces change (The Boston Globe)

1. When Judy met Jesus - Part II | It's been a mixed reception as a gospel artist, she says (Jamaica Gleaner)
   
   
2. Earlier: When Judy met Jesus | To hear Judy Mowatt speak of her journey of faith from Rastafarian to Christian is to learn how painful experiences in her childhood and adulthood served in the end to set her on fire in ministry for the Lord Jesus Christ (Jamaica Gleaner)
   
   
3. Rock at a CROSSroads | Alternative metal bands made up of avowed Christians encounter curious typecasting all the time (San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.)
   
   
4. 'Lord help us really rock' | Christ and clubbing may seem like an unlikely mix, but the twain do meet in New Jersey (The New York Times)

1. Final call to the faithful | Evangelist wraps up what may be his last San Diego mission (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
   
   
2. The ballad of Elvis and Billy | For decades, America has been caught up in this dizzying oscillation between marketed piety and license (Richard Louv, The San Diego Union-Tribune)
   
   
3. Why mix religion and journalism? | Some readers were displeased by the May 4 eight-page section about Billy Graham's four-day visit (Gina Lubrano, The San Diego Union-Tribune)

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