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• Clapping hands in church can be a way to praise God | I can't deny Scripture. As long as people are led by the Holy Spirit, clapping in honor and in praise of God appears to be appropriate. But I probably won't do it (Lonnie Wilkey, The Tennessean)
  
  

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People :

• Pastor gives up his daily bread | Cedric Portis has lost 80 pounds in the last 18 months as part of a commitment to the congregation of Third Presbyterian Church (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  
  
• The popular pastor | The Rev. Alyn Waller leads the fast-growing Enon Baptist church (Philadelphia Daily News)
  
  
• Robert MacNeil and the cudgel of culture | At speech, he went so far as to compare Islamic fundamentalism with Jewish and Christian fundamentalism."I am not for a moment suggesting that our fundamentalists harbor any violent intentions," he said, "but the initial psychology is similar to that which inspires Islamic reformers." (Philip Kennicott, The Washington Post)
  
  

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Other stories of interest :

• WTC search could find church relics | The search for the remains of Sept. 11 victims has moved across the street from the site of the World Trade Center to the lot of the destroyed St. Nicholas' Greek Orthodox Church, where important relics, including the bones of three saints, may also be buried (Associated Press)
  
  
• Beyond stones & bones | The new science of human evolution (Newsweek)
  
  
• Slaves among us | Nearly 400 years since the British ban, slavery still extends to all corners of the world -- developing and advanced (John Miller, Los Angeles Times)
  
  

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