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• Church lawyer: Dismiss lawsuit | Attorney for seceded St. James Church and two others says suit is not justified (Daily Pilot, Newport Beach, Ca.)
• Preacher's pet | Old North Church celebrates first Blessing of the Animals (The Boston Globe)
• Methodist bishop keeping the faith | Peter D. Weaver, the new bishop for the Lawrence-headquartered New England Conference of the United Methodist Church, is banking on PDFs -- public displays of faith, through vibrant congregations and their service to communities -- to help him open more churches (The Boston Globe)
• Warring Scots church groups in £10m lawsuit | Two warring factions of the Free Church of Scotland are to go to court today in a multi-million pound dispute over property (The Guardian, London)
• Let's toast the Sabbath in a non-alcoholic way | It may seem a nuisance to run out of Scotch on Sunday morning and not be able to pick up a bottle immediately, but anyone who cannot make it to the next day without buying booze needs to be in rehab (Thomas W. Goodhue, Newsday)
• Not your old-time religion | Some churches create alternative-format services to reach out to new worshippers (Corvallis Gazette-Times, Ore.)

People:

• One-time Satanist, arsonist becomes minister | Said devil made him set church fire (The Kentucky Post)
• New CEO takes helm at Habitat for Humanity International | Millard Fuller to continue as founder president of house-building ministry (Press release)
• Earlier: Habitat mulls its future without founder Fuller (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Aug. 27, 2004)
• Earlier: How to Build Homes Without Putting Up Walls | Habitat for Humanity strives to keep its Christian identity—a tricky task, when everybody wants to join (Christianity Today, May 31, 2002)
• Edward McAteer, who empowered Christian right, dies at 78 | Edward McAteer, who as the founder of the Religious Roundtable, a conservative Christian group, played a major role in establishing the Christian right's influence in American politics, died Wednesday after collapsing at his home in Memphis. He was 78 (The New York Times)
• Manila's Cardinal Sin rushed to hospital | Sin, who retired as Archbishop of Manila last November due to poor health, reportedly suffered a heart attack (Reuters)
• Also: Cardinal Sin 'stable' in hospital (BBC)
• Recognizing his calling, he fulfills his service mission | It's not often you run across a guy who wields a chain saw, a PDA and a Bible with equal aplomb (The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla.)
• Local archbishop a man of drive and mystery | While the rest of the country was reeling from war protests in the 1960s, Alex Brunett was a young academic dean stirring up his own protest at a Roman Catholic seminary in Michigan (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Jacques Derrida dies:

• Jacques Derrida dies at 74 | Controversial French philosopher whose theory of deconstruction gave us new insights into the meaning of language and aesthetic values (The Guardian, UK)
• The meaninglessness of meaning | Jacques Derrida is dead, but his baneful ideas live on (Roger Kimball, The Wall Street Journal)

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