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• Another English-language Bible? Southern Baptists say yes | Is this Bible necessary? That is the question, as the Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) enters the cluttered and competitive market for English translations. (Associated Press)
  
  

Abuse:

• Plaintiffs await verdict in Lutheran clergy abuse case | Nine alleged sex abuse victims waited Thursday for a jury's verdict on their claim that a regional Lutheran synod ignored warnings about a minister who preyed on boys. (Denton Record Chronicle, Texas)
  
  
• Deliberations begin in Lutheran abuse case | Jurors began deliberations late Wednesday in a sexual abuse lawsuit involving nine alleged victims who claim a regional Lutheran synod ignored warnings about a minister who preyed on boys. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Both sides rest in Lutheran abuse case | Both sides rested today after seven days of testimony in a sexual abuse lawsuit involving nine alleged victims who claim a regional Lutheran synod ignored warnings about a minister who preyed on boys. (Associated Press)
  
  
• The divine sociopath | Why isn't Bishop Thomas J. O'Brien in jail? There are far too many who have left the church because of his bad behavior (New Times Phoenix)
  
  
• Sex abuse case involving pastor goes to the jury | Jurors began deliberating late Wednesday in a sexual abuse lawsuit involving nine alleged victims who claim a regional Lutheran synod ignored warnings about a minister who preyed on boys. (Associated Press)
  
  

More articles:

• Amish man's U.S. stay hangs on a photo | For nearly two years, Daniel Zehr, an Amish man from Canada who wants to become an American citizen, has resisted what to others might seem a simple requirement: that he submit his photograph to immigration officials. Doing that, Mr. Zehr argues in a lawsuit, would violate his religious belief that the Bible prohibits posing for photographs. (New York Times)
  
  
• Mormon Church gets ready to open its newest temple, near Lincoln Center | A legacy of misunderstanding and persecution has bred a keen instinct for public relations in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And so, in what has become something of a ritual itself, the Mormon church opens every newly built temple to the public. Then it shuts the doors. (New York Times)
  
  
• Family Values | Randall Terry fights gay unions. His son no longer will (Washington Post)
  
  

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