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Swedish mourners seek damages over ‘drunk’ pastor

By telegraph.co.uk October 2, 2009.

Print: Telegraph

A Swedish family is seeking damages of nearly 30000 euros £27500 after a Protestant pastor performed a funeral service in an apparently drunk state the Church of Sweden said on Friday.

Melvin E. Wheatley dies at 93; Methodist bishop caused a stir by appointing gay pastor

Elaine Woo March 14, 2009.

Los Angeles Times

Wheatley, the senior pastor at Westwood United Methodist Church for nearly two decades, was ‘a visionary for the whole church,’ a longtime friend said.

Leon Howell dies at 73; author and essayist was last editor of Christianity and Crisis

March 11, 2009.

http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/features/religion/~3/nW9xaVDIVJM/la-me-leon-howell12-2009mar12,0,3542506.story

Leon Howell, an author and essayist who was the last editor of the influential liberal-tilting journal Christianity and Crisis, has died. He was 73.
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