A pregnancy is 40 weeks, but that includes two weeks during your cycle *before* conception. So most women find out they're pregnant around five or six weeks. It goes like this: Weeks 1 to 2: Body gets ready to ovluate. Weeks 2 to 3: Ovulation, fertilization and Implantation. Week 4 or 5: Period is late.
The Rev. Dr. William H. Willimon is Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry at The Divinity School, Duke University. He retired after serving eight years as Bishop of the North Alabama Conference of The United Methodist Church.
Bishop Eddie L. Long, the flamboyant megachurch pastor whose reputation was tarnished after former congregants accused him of sexual misconduct, died on Sunday. He was 63. The cause was cancer, his church, New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga., said in a statement. The statement did not say where he died. Bishop Long had been the senior pastor since 1987 at New Birth Missionary Baptist, a 10,000-seat church in Lithonia, a suburb of Atlanta.