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• Commandments' defender to speak at forum | Roy Moore will give the closing address of Coral Ridge Ministries' Reclaiming America for Christ gathering on Oct. 25 (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
  
  
• State court rejects gift of Ten Commandments | A group of Christians plans to rally today in support of the display of historic documents (Des Moines Register, Ia.)
  
  
• Mickey's rock | The American Heritage Foundation Rock is big, bulky, and heavy. (Orlando Weekly)
  
  

History:

• Disciple under duress | From the world's standpoint, Bonhoeffer gambled with his life and lost (The Oregonian)
  
  
• Inside job | Below the high altar of St. Peter's, investigators have found sheep bones, ox bones, pig bones, and the complete skeleton of a mouse. Was Peter himself ever there? (Tom Mueller, The Atlantic)
  
  

Sexual ethics:

• Married gay Canadian couple barred from U.S. | A married gay couple from Canada were not allowed to enter the U.S. because the two men insisted on declaring themselves a family at Customs (The New York Times)
  
  
• Canadian gay married couple denied entry to U.S. (Reuters)
  
  
• Canada may alter gay marriage plans, minister says | Health Minister Anne McLellan said the fact that Prime Minister Jean Chretien was stepping down next February meant his successor would have a free hand to tackle the issue as he saw fit (Reuters)
  
  
• Britain repeals gay law after long fight | Law against "promotion" of homosexuality was removed from the British statute books Thursday, after more than a decade of gay-rights protests (Associated Press)
  
  

Anglican troubles:

• Episcopal Church targeted | Draft resolutions by S.C. Diocese rap national body (The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.)
  
  
• Quincy diocese to consider leaving Episcopal Church | The three resolutions drafted by officials state that the Quincy diocese, one of the more conservative in the country and one of only three that refuse to ordain women, would become independent of the Episcopal Church, be regarded as its own branch or be combined with other like-minded churches at a future date (The Dispatch, Moline, Ill.)
  
  
• Archbishop faces gay bishops debate | The Archbishop of Canterbury is set to face renewed pressure to resist the ordination of gay bishops as Church of England evangelicals gather in Blackpool (BBC)
  
  
• Welsh church to debate gay clergy | The Church in Wales has said it will openly debate the issue of sexuality - an issue which has caused rifts in England (BBC)
  
  

Other stories of interest:

• Preying Presbyterians? | No papers explained, at least to my satisfaction, why they felt it important to note why they used the term Presbyterian as a description for Paul Hill (Aly Colón, Poynter Institute)
  
  
• Hope for preaching parrot | Solomon, who has a 2,600-word vocabulary with an evangelical Christian message, was captured and escaped again (Canadian Press)
  
  
• Remembering J.D. Douglas | David Wright writes about the journalist and lecturer (The Scotsman)
  
  
• Dad who mounted pledge challenge gets partial custody | Was stripped of legal custody in February 2002 (Legal Times)
  
  

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