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More on the impending Anglican breakup:

• Church gay row reignites | Senior evangelicals are expected to call for the Church of America and Canada to be suspended from the Anglican Communion for allowing a gay man to become a bishop (Sky News, U.K.)
  
  
• Anglicans face schism over gay row | Conservative US bishops prepare to take on liberal British wing in bitter struggle for Church's soul (The Observer, London)
  
  
• Among Episcopalians, grief over gay bishop | Protests grow, but risk of schism still uncertain (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Church Society calls for exclusion of Episcopal Church | The Church Society is the oldest evangelical body in the Church of England, and known for its hard-line views on issues of sexual ethics (Ekklesia, U.K.)
  
  
• Trinity associate priest resigns | Cites conservative, 'schismatic' direction local church is going (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Oh.)
  
  

Homosexuality and Canada:

• Marriage divides the House | The deep divisions within the Liberal government on plans to legalize gay marriage were laid bare Tuesday in the House of Commons when the Grits barely survived an Alliance motion to preserve the traditional definition of marriage (The Globe and Mail, Toronto)
  
  
• Canada's parliament endorses gay marriage | Narrow defeat of motion on traditional matrimony underscores national divide (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Earlier: Alliance motion on marriage a trap: PM | Warns of threat to the equality rights of gays, lesbians, calls on Liberals to defeat resolution today (Toronto Star)
  
  
• Religious groups fear Bible may become illegal | Bill C-250 would include sexual orientation into Canada's hate propaganda law that already bans inciting hatred against an "identifiable" group defined by color, race, religion or ethnic origin (Calgary Sun)
  
  
• MPs to vote on extending anti-hate bill to gays (CTV)
  
  

Homosexuality and the church:

• Church rejects call of lesbian minister | The Rev. Curran Reichert 12 votes short of acceptance by Princeton congregation (The Peoria Journal Star, Ill.)
  
  
• For filmmakers, pastor's story was personal | Dawn Mikkelson and Jamie A. Lee chronicle a lesbian ELCA minister in the documentary This Obedience (Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.)
  
  
• Lesbian wedding splits Presbyterian church | Pastor expelled after performing marriage; congregation reeling (Associated Press)
  
  

Parachurch ministries:

• Teen drug rehab retools policies, retains license | Evangelical ministry Teen Reach had complaints about discipline (The Arizona Republic)
  
  
• $250,000 chokes Liberia for Jesus | Barely two months following the presentation of the checks, executives and other officials of the LFJ have declined to disclose the name of the local bank in which the check is being deposited (The News, Monrovia, Liberia)
  
  
• Mercy Ministries changes girls' lives | Residential program treats girls who have suffered from sexual abuse, addiction to drugs or a myriad of other problems (The Tennessean)
  
  
• An unlikely Eden | Equipped with a hi-tech bus and DIY skills, an army of evangelical Christian youth workers has taken its brand of social healing to the housing estates of Manchester. But their efforts to breathe new life into rundown areas are proving controversial (BBC)
  
  

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September (Web-only) 2003, Vol. 47