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Church Life

• Manhattan: Pamphlets allowed | A federal judge ruled yesterday that a pamphlet from the evangelical group Jews for Jesus that included the name and caricature of the comedian Jackie Mason was constitutionally protected speech (The New York Times)
  
  
• Christians struggle to preserve a balance of power | As the country's Shiite population, embodied by Hezbollah, gains political prominence, Lebanon's Christians are struggling to maintain their influence (The New York Times)
  
  
• Church of England leader, Pope to meet | The Archbishop of Canterbury will have his first private meeting with Pope Benedict XVI this month, the Church of England said Thursday (Associated Press)
  
  
• Are we sinning yet? | The United Church of Canada hopes an ad featuring a can of whipped cream and the question, "How much fun can sex be before it's a sin?" will fill its pews as Christmas nears (Reuters)
  
  
• Missouri Baptist Convention expels 19 churches | The Missouri Baptist Convention voted this week to oust 19 churches for donating money and having other ties to more moderate Baptist groups (Associated Press)
  
  
• Episcopal congregations seeking spiritual shelter in Africa | Angry over their U.S. church's position on homosexuality, a growing number of Episcopal congregations are seeking spiritual shelter thousands of miles away, in the Anglican churches of Africa (McClatchy Newspapers)
  
  
• Tension behind the pulpit - it has always been so | Why do churches separate? (Martyn Percy, The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  

Elections and Analysis

• Who won, who lost in midterm elections | Efforts by Democratic candidates to display their faith and connect with religious voters helped produce huge electoral wins in Pennsylvania and Ohio, according to analysts and independent pollsters (Religion News Service)
  
  
• Democrats win control of Congress | In a rout once considered almost inconceivable, Democrats won a 51st seat in the Senate and regained total control of Congress after 12 years of near-domination by the Republican Party (Associated Press )
  
  
• Ohio Democrats win races for Senate and Governor | Representative Ted Strickland became the first Democrat to win election as governor in Ohio in 16 years, and Democrat Representative Sherrod Brown, defeated Senator Mike DeWine (The New York Times)
  
  
• Religious voting data show some shift, observers say | White evangelical and born-again Christians did not desert Republican Congressional candidates and they did not stay home, nationwide exit polls show (The New York Times)
  
  
• Exit polling | So that we all may better understand what happened in Tuesday's midterm elections, why it happened and how it happened, herewith is a summary of the more salient results of the national exit poll for House races (Editorial, The Washington Times)
  
  
• Republican blame game begins | Recriminations flew from every which way against Republican leaders as voters turned out yesterday for the culmination of an election campaign that had President Bush's party on the defensive (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Dobson: GOP failed | Focus on the Family founder James Dobson blames Republicans' crushing election losses on a failure to reach out to their social conservative base and warned that the GOP would err badly in taking a more moderate course as some have suggested (The Denver Post)
  
  
• The outlook for religion in politics | The Democratic resurgence in Congress heralds a new dynamic in the long-standing tug-of-war over religion and politics in public life (Religionlink.org)
  
  
• Emanuel's star on the rise after guiding Dems to wins | "We got one-third of the evangelical vote … because we reached out," Democratic party Chairman Howard Dean said (USA Today)
  
  

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