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• Ruling for church in Concord site battle | City wants to block theater conversion (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Court upholds reading of prayer | Parliamentary privilege cited (The Toronto Star)
• California Senate bill allows jail for abortion-clinic blockaders | Opponents say measure violates freedom of speech (Associated Press)
• Bricks land in religious dispute | School unlikely to allow the Ten Commandments (The Miami Herald)

Education:

• Christian school plan signals trouble in small town | Many in Sierra Madre fear that the project could bring the first traffic light to a quaint downtown area. (Los Angeles Times)
• Church attendance linked to higher grades | "The more religious you became, the better," says author of study (Education Week)

Popular culture:

• Star may be born on Kristin sitcom | Christian faith empowers the fictional Kristin, a nice girl who takes an interim job as a receptionist for a real estate tycoon and shameless playboy (Associated Press)
• England and Australia don't have a prayer | Religion and cricket sometimes overlap—but less often on the island nations (The Guardian, London)
• Pub chain accused of blasphemy to encourage Sunday drinking (Ananova)
• Rap duo wins high praise at fest | Increasingly popular as a form of worship to reach young people, Christian rap has distanced itself from its gangsta cousin (Charles W. Bell, New York Daily News)
• Charlie Reid of The Proclaimers:: "I'd like to be a Christian. I wish I could believe in it." | Imitating Bono? (The Sunday Times)
• Marilyn Manson takes on critics, Columbine fallout | "I really don't find the controversy something to be proud of, or to use to better my career," says shock rocker. Uh-huh. (The Denver Post)
• Also: Manson's right to perform | Protection against evil comes through knowledge and understanding, not denial and avoidance (Matt Henehan, The Denver Post)
• Also: Dying for responsibility | I challenge our community to accept responsibility for the negative message that is coming to town. (Jason Janz , The Denver Post)

Church life:

• Lutherans oppose leadership | Christ Church in Freemansburg moving toward split with Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. (The Morning Call, Allentown, Pennsylvania)
• Worshipers chase Mexico City bandits | Mass suspended to apprehend thief (Associated Press)
• Atheists given say in women bishops row | Church of England announces that consultation on women in the episcopate is widening beyond churchgoers to include Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists and those of no faith (The Daily Telegraph, London)
• Fixing leaky church roof no job for faint-hearted | For five years, St Andrew's Anglican Church has employed a bucket brigade. (The New Zealand Herald)
• Appeals panel: Reprimanded prison workers can pursue speech claims in court | But federal judges, reversing lower court ruling, throw out employees' claims that punishment for reading Bible during training session violated their religious liberties (Freedom Forum)
• ACLU Won't Appeal Ohio Decision to Supreme Court | "Potential risk was not worth the gain" says spokesman (Associated Press)

Fallout from guilty verdict in genocide trial:

• Nuns' conviction 'surprises' Vatican | Spokesman for Roman Catholic Church says "all who have sinned during the genocide" must come forward, but don't blame Church itself (Associated Press)

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June (Web-only) 2001, Vol. 45