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• With conservative Episcopalians making plans to separate, gay bishop-elect stands firm | The man at the center of the controversy said he intended to proceed with his consecration as bishop of New Hampshire in less than two weeks (The New York Times)
  
  
• American bishop to address gay Christians | Halfway to Lambeth, a three-day event organized by the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, is getting under way in Manchester (PA, U.K.)
  
  

Opinion on Anglicanism:

• The end of a church and the triumph of denominationalism | On how to think about what is happening in the Episcopal Church (Philip Turner, First Things)
  
  
• Who gets what | The Episcopal Church may need some good divorce lawyers (Philip Chalk, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Gay bishop appointment 'unacceptable' to Anglican Communion | Archbishop Drexel Gomez talks about primates' meeting (The Nassau Guardian, Bahamas)
  
  
• The Church hesitant | Confusion is normal in a Christian (Andrew Gimson, The Spectator, U.K.)
  
  
• Anglicans can't back down now | The Anglican Communion faces a stark choice: change with the times or suffer the same decline now evident in the Roman Catholic Church (Steve Weinstein, Washington Blade [gay newspaper])
  
  

Lt. Gen. Boykin (news):

• Secretary denies any pressure to fire Boykin | Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday that he is under no pressure from the White House to fire Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, despite President Bush's public distancing of himself from the general's remarks about Islam (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Religion playing a role in war on terror | The subject of religion has taken a prominent spot right where President Bush didn't want it — front-and-center in the war against terrorism (Associated Press)
  
  

Lt. Gen. Boykin (opinion—pro):

• Who is William Arkin? | A look at the Greenpeace activist cum L.A. Times military affairs columnist who's taking after Gen. Jerry Boykin (Hugh Hewitt, The Weekly Standard)
  
  
• A Christian warrior under fire | Boykin seems to be exactly the kind of warrior America needs to lead us in battle against the kind of fanatics we face (Patrick J. Buchanan, The Washington Times)
  
  
• Support urged for Lt. Gen. Boykin! | Anyone who dares to live out his faith in public will be cut down (James Dobson, Focus on the Family, audio)
  
  

Lt. Gen. Boykin (opinion—con):

• Boykin's Satanic convergence | 'The enemy is a guy named Satan' says administration terrorist hunter (Bill Berkowitz, WorkingForChange.com)
  
  
• Can our deity beat their deity? | Our civic religion of tolerance keeps us strong in the face of intolerance.(Ellen Goodman, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Boykin's bizarre beliefs give aid and comfort to the enemy | Bush should promptly demote Boykin and lose him in the anonymous Pentagon bureaucracy, where his ignorance will do less harm (Cynthia Tucker)
  
  
• Army general should be removed from key post | Failure to take significant action would send the wrong message to the Arab world (Editorial, Jackson Sun)
  
  
• Boykin's rhetoric too simplistic | Words about Islam hurt U.S. efforts to fight an intelligent war against terrorism (Editorial, York Daily Record, Penn.)
  
  
• Separate church from state | Even as most Americans have more or less come to grips with the church/state question, today's American foreign policy has swung wildly out of balance (Georgie Anne Geyer, Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Idol words | Lt. Gen. Boykin deserves repudiation for calling the war on terror a religious crusade (Editorial, Newsday)
  
  

Persecution

• Group: Chinese church activist charged | Xiao Biguang's arrest in Henan province last month was "probably related to his writing of articles" dealing with "Christian charters" (Associated Press)
  
  

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