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More on Bush's Faith-based initiative:

• Religious experts discuss soundness of President Bush's faith-based initiatives | Journalist, scholars, among panelists (Freedom Forum)
• Black clerics open arms to Bush's funding plan | Saying no to the money, they reason, is the luxury of the well-heeled and well-connected, not urban churches trying to keep kids off the street. (Chicago Tribune)
• Bush adviser: Faith-based plan bigger than religion | John DiIulio has until July 27 to come up with formal recommendations for making faith-based initiatives a reality. (Reuters/CNN)
• Faith-Based Discrimination: The Case of Alicia Pedreira | The Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children said her homosexuality made her unfit to work there as a therapist. Now, as Congress prepares to consider President Bush's agenda to allow an array of government-financed social programs to be administrated by religious groups, her case is being monitored by proponents and opponents alike of so-called faith-based initiatives. (The New York Times)
• DiIulio's faith-based challenge | Sharp comments to the National Association of Evangelicals should be read as an attack not on Christian conservatives but on all of us who do too little for—and think too little about—the very poor. (E. J. Dionne Jr., The Washington Post)
• Blair puts his faith in religious partners | Prime minister stresses moral values and asks for help in promoting health and welfare (The Guardian, London)
• You make the call | Should Washington discriminate against religious groups? (Marvin Olasky, World)

God and sports:

• Coach criticizes Knick chapel in article | In an interview with New York magazine, Jeff Van Gundy said he would like to limit the time that the team chaplain, Pastor John Love, spends with the players before games. (The New York Times)
• Also: Smile and you lose | The driven, intense son of another driven, intense coach, Jeff Van Gundy believes that the two worst things to happen to the NBA are God and golf. Why? They sap players' intensity. But imagine what the game would look like if his players were as intense as he is. (New York)
• Pell in broadside at footballers, pop stars | Departing Catholic archbishop of Melbourne says three-quarters of pop stars and footballers are "crooks." (The Age, Melbourne)
• Nothing's sacred when money is god. … except the footie | Churches oppose rugby on Good Friday (Paul Sheehan, The Sydney Morning Herald)

Sudan:

• A holy war of words | Washington is now beginning to take notice of Sudan's once forgotten conflict (The Financial Times)
• Sudan persecution decried | Franklin Graham urges action by Bush (The Boston Globe)
• Sudan 'gives green light' for slave trade to flourish again | The Sudanese government is allegedly encouraging slavery by delivering arms to Arab kidnappers in return for their support in the civil war (The Daily Telegraph, London)
• Canada's refusal to grant Nigerian refugee status raises question: What counts as religious persecution? (The National Post)

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April (Web-only) 2001, Vol. 45