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Is Eugene Rivers an Uncle Tom?:

• Have these ministers lost touch? | Eugene Rivers said he went into the castle ''on behalf of those we serve.'' He will have to come back with a lot to make us forget all the black bodies white conservatives dumped in the moat. (Derrick Z. Jackson, The Boston Globe)

Church expansion controversy:

• Public school allowed to build in rural area | Last week the Metropolitan King County Council closed the door on new churches or schools in rural areas for at least the next 10 months. Yesterday it opened that door a crack. (The Seattle Times)
• Churches not immune to growth limits | The churches seek an exception, one with perhaps unintended consequences, but with dire possibilities for the region's quality of life. (Editorial, The Seattle Times)

Politics and law:

• Experts divided on Internet filtering legislation | Civil libertarians, educators disagree on Children's Internet Protection Act (Freedom Forum)
• Religious club seeks 'good news' from court | Oral arguments scheduled for next week in Supreme Court case over whether club can meet on school grounds (Education Week)
• Earlier: The Nicest Battle Over Religion in Schools (Christianity Today Weblog, Oct. 11, 2000)

Other stories of interest:

• Image of Jesus Christ in Akron bar? | Owners of James Dean bar initially taped over image that appeared in cash register dime drawer (WKYC, Cleveland)
• U.S. grapples with how to help curtail religious persecution abroad | Can the US have any impact on curtailing religious persecution abroad? Just how challenging the picture can be is evident from the USCIRF's latest hearings, held last week on Vietnam. (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Vietnamese factory workers convert to Christianity in Samoa | The 250 mainly female workers were being fed and looked after by the Baptist church after the Daewoosa Samoa company collapsed, leaving them jobless. (Radio Australia)
• Priest's stalker freed | Churchgoer who bombarded a priest with love letters and gifts, forcing him to flee his parish, gets probation due to illness (The Scotsman, Edinburgh)
• Britain must find its soul, says new Cardinal | Archbishop of Westminster says he expects to "be attacked as a witness to the truth" as he wears the red (The Daily Telegraph, London)
• God's Triptik | The Routledge Historical Atlas of Religion in America makes for a fascinating, though relatively new means to study the religious diaspora in the United States (The Christian Science Monitor)

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