(7/2/09) — Seminary president Serene Jones, a Disciple, will talk theology with journalist Bill Moyers and two fellow academics on Moyers' public television program this weekend.

CANE RIDGE, Ky. (7/2/09) — Musicians from several Central Kentucky congregations came together on Saturday, June 27, to fill Cane Ridge Meeting House with joyous sounds of old time hymns and gospel music. For the more than 100 attendees at the annual Cane Ridge Day, it was easy to visualize a warm summer worship service in the 1800’s in the two centuries old log church.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (7/2/09) — In one especially soul-baring e-mail to his Argentine mistress, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford quoted from 1 Corinthians 13 about the nature of love.

WEBSTER, Texas (7/2/09) — Police in Texas said they used a Taser on a pastor and pepper spray on his congregants after the man interfered with a traffic stop in the church parking lot. Police said the traffic stop Wednesday morning involved a member of the Iglesia Profetica Peniel church in its parking lot in Webster, southeast of Houston.

CANTERBURY, England (ENI, 7/2/09) — Richard Dawkins, the British academic, who is said by his critics to try to convert people to believe there is no God in a manner akin to proselytizing, is backing Britain's first atheist camp for children.

LAKEMOOR, Ill. (7/2/09) — The planters in her front yard brought Tina Asmus national publicity last month. This week, they brought her a $25 fine. Asmus said Tuesday she will go to court to fight to keep her lawn ornaments, which are made from two old toilets and a bathroom sink.

QUITO, Ecuador (ENI/ALC, 7/2/09) — Democracy should be restored in Honduras, says the head of the Latin American Council of Churches, which has expressed deep concern about violence occurring in the Central American country.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (6/30/09) — Since returning from Honduras after 18 months as a mission intern, Kevin Howe has been speaking to churches about the work of Global Ministries’ partners there.

NEW YORK (ENI, 6/30/09) — A new North American group claiming to embrace "traditional Anglican values" will not last long, the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop has predicted.

BUDAPEST (ENI, 6/30/09) — Hungary has marked the 20th anniversary of a symbolic opening of the Iron Curtain, which once separated it from neighboring Austria, amid warnings from churches that Europe remains divided.