Answers to your questions about the closing of DisciplesWorld magazine and DisciplesWorld Inc.

INDIANAPOLIS (12/16/09) — We are sad to announce that DisciplesWorld, the award-winning journal of news, opinion, and mission for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), will cease publication after almost eight years. We no longer have sufficient resources to publish due to declining subscription and advertising revenue and charitable gifts. The non-profit entity that publishes the magazine — DisciplesWorld, Inc. — is also dissolving.

ST LOUIS (12/16/09) — So many situations in the church call for creativity. How do you create a vital community? How do you revitalize a congregation? How do you create a community of young adults? How can you do ministry in a new way? How can you provide a seemingly impossible-to-create ministry to reach the seemingly impossible-to-reach community?

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP, 12/15/09) — Mike Phillips remembers walking to his hooch from the communal hut in the smothering darkness of the Mekong River delta.

VILNIUS, Lithuania (ENI, 12/15/09) — Unwanted babies in Lithuania, who may have faced abandonment or even death, may now be left anonymously at special "windows of life" facilities set up with church support.

ROME (ENI, 12/15/09) — Pope Benedict XVI has said he is "disturbed and distressed" by the findings of an official report that says the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland failed to deal with allegations of sexual abuse.

NEW YORK (ENI, 12/15/09) — Observers in the United States had varying reactions to the address by U.S. President Barack Obama, when, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, he condemned religious-inspired violence but also offered a defence of the just-war tradition.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP, 12/14/09) — Asheville City Councilman Cecil Bothwell believes in ending the death penalty, conserving water and reforming government — but he doesn't believe in God. His political opponents say that's a sin that makes him unworthy of serving in office, and they've got the North Carolina Constitution on their side.

EUGENE, Ore. (AP, 12/14/09) — You've got to figure Jesus would appreciate this whole deal: Homeless families getting some of their needs met by a sketchy-looking group of bikers — long-haired, leather-clad, smoking cigarettes and riding rumbling Harleys down Highway 99 on a sunny Saturday morning in late November.

COPENHAGEN (ENI, 12/14/09) — Bells pealed as a warning on climate change after the Archbishop of Canterbury told a church service in Copenhagen, attended by people from major faiths and Christian denominations, that humanity can only show love to all by making the earth a secure home.