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Christmas:

• The nine days of Tom and Jack | Forget about Hanukah vs. Christmas. The real debate is between colored lights and white ones (Michael Kelly, The Washington Post)
• A salute to Christmas | Americans mix church and state on their front lawns. (Thomas J. Bray, The Wall Street Journal)

Interfaith chaplaincies:

• New state prison chaplain is the Rev. Witch, a Wiccan | Legislator questions appointment, but barring her position would be unconstitutional (Associated Press)
• Also: Wiccan defends right to be chaplain | Lawmaker says he'll push to cut funds for prison chaplain (The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
• Chaplains to open ranks | A local law enforcement chaplaincy under fire for requiring volunteers to be followers of Jesus Christ has agreed to open its ranks to volunteers from all faiths (Los Angeles Times)
• Before: Officials probe Sacramento Christian-only chaplaincy | Law Enforcement Chaplaincy-Sacramento is a private Christian group that has served the area's policing agencies for the past 25 years (Jewish Bulletin of Northern California)

After 9/11:

• God is not on my side. Or yours. | There are folks like me who are fanatically uncertain about what God is thinking (Roger Rosenblatt, Time)
• Good books | Christian booksellers say sales continue to boom (Las Vegas Sun)

Sexual ethics:

• In God we trust! | Commercial sex workers believe God, not safer sex, can save them from HIV/AIDS as they carry on with little or no protection, new studies reveal (Vanguard, Lagos, Nigeria)
• 'Singing vicar' runs off with rector's wife | Church shocked and in tears (The Times)
• Also: 'Singing vicar' runs off with fellow rector's wife (The Daily Telegraph)

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