Why was this meeting so important?

What happens next?

What will happen in the meantime?

After the conclusion of the recent decennial global Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops, The Telegraph answers these questions and more...

From The New York Post:

A note of prayer that Barack Obama penned and slipped into the cracks of the Western Wall in Jerusalem was pilfered from the holy site and published in an Israeli newspaper - exposing to the world a personal plea for God to help him "guard against pride and despair."

 

All in all, American Christians seem as devoted to their government as Ruth was to Naomi. But should they be? Do either the flag or the Pledge have any place in the Lord's house? Is congregational commitment to the republic for which these emblems stand consistent with Biblical Christianity? Is political power?

Christian Science Monitor writer Becky Akers says no.

P.Z. Myers, biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, sparked a huge controversy in his blog posting of July 8, in which he discussed his views of a news story featuring the backlash against a student who absconded from a Catholic church with a Eucharist wafer and was physically confronted for doing so.

Toward the end of his blog entry, Mr. Myers wrote:

So, what to do. I have an idea. Can anyone out there score me some consecrated communion wafers? There's no way I can personally get them — my local churches have stakes prepared for me, I'm sure — but if any of you would be willing to do what it takes to get me some, or even one, and mail it to me, I'll show you sacrilege, gladly, and with much fanfare.

Of course, Mr. Myers' comments have produced the (desired?) reaction, and he has apparently recently gone through with his plan.

The story took another twist, however, as an employee of 1-800-Flowers.com sent a threatening email to Mr. Myers, and wound up fired for it.

While atypical in the blogosphere, there has also been something of a more measured response.

Spotted at AP.com via Google:

The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again — online.

The British Library says the full text of the Codex Sinaiticus will be available to Web users by next July, digitally reconnecting parts that are held in Britain, Russia, Germany and a monastery in Egypt's Sinai Desert.

A preview of the Codex, which also has some parts of the Old Testament, will hit the Web on Thursday — the Book of Psalms and the Gospel of Mark.