{"id":4667,"date":"2007-08-06T13:31:13","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T18:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2010-12-20T10:56:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T15:56:11","slug":"5761","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2007\/08\/06\/5761\/","title":{"rendered":"Story of Pastor\u2019s Death Leads Most-Read List"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO, IL (August 6, 2007) \u2013 The untimely death of John Marks, pastor of Trinity Covenant Church in Livingston, New Jersey, clearly caught the attention of online Covenant news readers during the month of July as two stories related to his death and the memorial service led July\u2019s list of most-read stories.
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\nAnother story that attracted considerable attention was the announcement by Glenn R. Palmberg of his plan to retire at the end of August next year. That story also drew the largest number of reader comments published in the online Readers Share<\/em> feature.<\/p>\n

And, although the June Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, may seem like old news\u00a0 after several weeks have passed, those online news stories continue to draw hundreds of readers \u2013 collectively totaling in the thousands at this point \u2013 making that collection of news accounts number 10 in the monthly ranking.<\/p>\n

Following are the Top Ten stories for July. To read a particular story, search for the\u00a0 headline.<\/p>\n