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...drastic changes are in the works. "To say they are panicking out in Idaho is a gross understatement," says Joseph Hotchkiss, chairman of Cornell University's Department of Food Sciences. Potato growers and the processing companies that make fries held a summit in July to figure out how to rev up potato sales. Manufacturers were reluctant to reveal what they have in the pipeline, but growers want to aggressively promote a more healthful potato. No wonder. The price of a 100lb. bag of russets has dropped to $2 from $8 a year...
Such a meeting of the church's leaders on a single, urgent topic is "very, very rare," says the Rev. J. Robert Wright, official historiographer of the Episcopal Church. "To my knowledge it has never been done before...
Other Protestant churches are carefully watching developments in the Episcopal Church. "In the past the struggle around homosexuality in one denomination has presented a template for the struggle in other churches," says the Rev. Eileen Lindner, a historian with the National Council of Churches. Lindner points out that Presbyterians, United Methodists and Evangelical Lutherans all have "substantial, active, gay faithful caucuses" that now will push to re-examine the question of gay clergy. In fact, Reverend Wright, who escorted "ecumenical observers" from other churches at last week's conference, said the prevailing view was that "a logjam had been broken...
...dare say, we of the church in the United States could not have imagined just how important this gesture of asking forgiveness would be for us." THE REV. SEAN P. O'MALLEY, in a homily during his installation as Archbishop of Boston, on repentance for widespread sexual abuse among priests...
...rector, Rev. David Jones, stood silently before the screen as the news came that Robinson had won confirmation with the support of 62 of 107 bishops.?He said nothing. Slowly, as the news sunk in, Jones wiped tears away that welled in his eyes. He later told reporters he had spoken to Robinson the night before the vote. "He said," recalled Jones, "'I feel like a little man in a little boat on a big ocean, but I know who is in the boat with...