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• Earlier: Books & Culture Corner: "Mind Control" and the Christian Citizen | Historian Sean Wilentz's misguided attack on Justice Antonin Scalia (Christianity Today, Aug. 5, 2002)
  
  
• Earlier still: God's Justice and Ours (Antonin Scalia, First Things, May 2002)
  
  
• Stem cell foes mount a final challenge | Scientists, MPs and clerics yesterday rallied opinion against embryo research (Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Australia's Deputy Prime Minister rallies against stem cell research | John Anderson says the benefits of stem cell research are being seriously overstated (ABC News, Australia)
  
  
• Nourished on forbidden fruit | Playing God means playing with death, and yet scientific progress depends on man's ambition to look for ways to master what he doesn't understand (Suzanne Fields, The Washington Times)

Sex, marriage, and family:

• Sex in the City of God | A couple make the case for contraception-free marriage. And, no, they're not Catholic (National Review Online)
  
  
• Earlier: Make Love and Babies | The contraceptive mentality says children are something to be avoided. We're not buying it. (Sam and Bethany Torode, Christianity Today, Nov. 9, 2001)
  
  
• Good fathers? It figures | Study says stability, strong ties are keys for successful dads (Patricia Wen, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Catholic colleges struggle with sex | With sexually active students on their campuses and the Vatican unswervingly opposed to premarital sex, America's Roman Catholic colleges face difficult choices on such sensitive matters as condom use and unwanted pregnancies (Associated Press)
  
  
• Adopt a church | Would it be unethical to list ourselves as Christian in the application with the assumption that there is a greater likelihood that we would be chosen to be parents? (The New York Times Magazine)
  
  
• SAVE Dade takes cause door-to-door | More than than 150 volunteers, many affiliated with local temples and churches, went door-to-door Sunday to educate voters about Miami-Dade's human rights ordinance, which voters will decide next month whether to leave intact (The Miami Herald)
  
  
• Anglican leader modifies outlook on homosexual marriages, priests | Says he'll let an Anglican resolution against gay marriages and gay priests stand (CNSNews.com)

Church abuse scandals:

• Failing to shed air of aloofness, church frustrates even its faithful | Nine months after the abuse scandal exploded, many Catholics in Boston are still frustrated by the response of the church hierarchy (The New York Times)
  
  
• Priests' meeting marks first public dissent over sex abuse policy | Resistance a Troubling Sign for Victims Groups (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Ousted members contend Jehovah's Witnesses' abuse policy hides offenses | Expelled members of Jehovah's Witness congregations are accusing the group of actively covering up child sexual abuse within the church (The New York Times)
  
  
• San Jose, California, Roman Catholic diocese to put windows in some confessionals | Hopes plan will safeguard against sexual abuse and protect priests from false accusations (Associated Press)

Missions & ministry:

• Growth of nation's gray population challenges community ministries | Age spread among seniors now means that programs must cover a broad spectrum, experts say (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Pastor completes U.S. unicycle trek | Lars Clausen crosses America to help the Eskimos to whom he once ministered (Associated Press)
  
  
• Lackluster response to 'Jesus' video fund drive hasn't deterred group | The committee now hopes to raise the money in time to get the videos distributed throughout the Roanoke Valley before Christmas (The Roanoke Times)
  
  

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August (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46