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Billy Graham:

• Graham didn't intend to endorse Clinton | Evangelist's praise for senator at crusade just that, son says (The Charlotte Observer, N.C.)
• Clarification: Graham remark on Hillary Clinton was not an endorsement | Comments misunderstood, says Franklin (Religion News Service)
• Earlier: Why I walked out on Billy Graham | Dr. Graham and his organization allowed the Clintons to take this holy moment, this sacred hour, and once again soil it (Rob Schenck, WorldNetDaily)
• Also: Rev. Graham's Dem ties irk the right | What's really got fundamentalist politicos up in arms is not a secularist Supreme Court. It's the Rev. Billy Graham (John Nichols, The Capital Times, Madison, Wi.)
• A lion in winter | Even those who do not share Graham's theology admire his powerful preaching and the passion he brought to the great commission (Editorial, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Tex.)
• Pat Boone speaks! (and prays) | A Gospel Hall of Famer, and a big fan of Billy (New York Press)
• Rattling the cage: God bless America | Graham Crusade attendees were not the power-mad, reactionary Republican leaders in Congress, or the fearsome lobbyists for Christian fundamentalist power, or the hate-mongers of radical Right media. No, those quarter-million congregants on the grass at Flushing Meadows were regular Americans with an emotional, spiritual need (Larry Derfner, The Jerusalem Post)

Missions & ministry:

• Religious interns comfort seniors | Students learn by building relationships with elderly and being available for them (Chicago Tribune)
• Emergency kit effort aims to enlist religious leaders | People who work to promote residents' spiritual health are being asked to also promote their safety -- by helping them prepare for the chaos that can come with winter storms, hurricanes, terrorist attacks and other disasters (The Washington Post)
• Religion in the News: Leaving Boys Town | Val Peter, president and chief executive of Girls and Boys Town, is stepping down after 20 years (Associated Press)
• Jesus hates you | Christians rationalize bigotry at "Love Won Out" (The Stranger, Seattle)
• Program links team sports, Christianity | Churches in Orange, Lake and Seminole counties sponsor Upward Unlimited (The Orlando Sentinel)
• Rehabilitation through religion | "I go to church in the afternoons and at night," Fuller told CBS News Correspondent Thalia Assuras. "And it helps me cope with being in prison." (CBS Evening News)

Church life:

• Senior clergy move to block ordination of women bishops | In a last-ditch attempt by traditionalists to scupper a debate at the General Synod this month, 17 bishops have given warning that women bishops would be deeply divisive. The protesters include the Bishop of Durham, Dr Tom Wright, an evangelical theologian who is the fourth most senior bishop in the Church and whose views are widely respected (The Times, London)
• Tampa Church is the nation's fastest grower | Without Walls International, a local congregation that began with five members in 1991 is the fastest- growing and second-largest Protestant church in the nation (The Tampa Tribune, Fla.)
• A place to do 'God-sized things' | James Meeks' new $50 million state-of-the-art church rivals concert stadiums tailored for rock stars, making it, according to Meeks, the largest building in the country constructed for religious services (Chicago Sun-Times)
• Archbishop Carey to serve U.S. parish | The retired archbishop of Canterbury will spend this fall and all of next year as a resident priest at an Episcopal parish in Chevy Chase while working on a research project at the Library of Congress (The Washington Times)

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