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Islam:

• Christians who judge Islam are immature | It appears that some evangelicals just plain don't like it that Islam is now being accorded a measure of attention and respect. (Cary McMullen, The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla.)
  
  
• Sanitizing Islam | Nowadays, the liberal desire to "understand" is often confused with the politically correct need to finesse and sanitize (Editorial, The Jerusalem Post)
  
  
• Can Islam be reformed? | Can Islam ever be reformed in the way Christianity was in the 16th century? Or would such an attempt simply produce a different religion? (Uwe Siemon-Netto, UPI)

UNC Qur'an assignment:

• UNC official defends Qu'ran talks | Student discussions were uneventful (Associated Press)
  
  
• Reading of Approaching the Qur'an stirs controversy at U.S. university (Voice of America)
  
  
• Cuckoo in Carolina | The ruckus being raised by conservative Christians over the University of North Carolina's decision to ask incoming students to read a book about the Koran exhibits such profound lack of understanding of what America is about (Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times)
  
  
• Instructed, not converted | North Carolina manages to avoid establishing Islam as the state religion. (Terry Eastland, The Wall Street Journal)

Sex and marriage:

• Catholic church refuses to marry couple | Bride works for Planned Parenthood (Canadian Press)
  
  
• Also: Bishop defends canceling wedding over bride's politics | Planned Parenthood employee 'is in a conflicted position and something has got to give,' he says (Canadian Press)
  
  
• If holy rumpy-pumpy had taken another route | If the Carpocratians, Amaurians, and others had their way, extramarital sex wouldn't be a sin (Andrew Masterson, The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  
• Mike inks law recognizing gay marriages | New York City is the first municipality in the United States to recognize gay marriages performed in other jurisdictions (New York Post)

Orlando gay-rights proposal:

• Area churches lead charge against plan for protecting gays | An Orlando proposal to ban discrimination against gays has prompted some Central Florida churches to launch a letter-writing campaign in an outcry within the local religious community not seen in years (The Orlando Sentinel)
  
  
• Gay-rights issue draws threat | A conservative Christian group is playing hardball politics over Orlando's gay-rights proposal, privately threatening to trash a City Council member's reputation if he doesn't abstain from voting on the initiative (The Orlando Sentinel)

Media:

• Shock jocks give Viacom a black eye | Opie and Anthony stunt gives radio parent a PR nightmare but won't have big impact on company's advertising revenue (Jane Weaver, MSNBC)
  
  
• Serve society, journalists advised | Christianity Today International veep Harold Smith speaks to Ugandans (New Vision, Kampala)

Pop culture:

• Faithful wear religion on their sleeves | Forget Nike, the Gap, and the usual brand names. At this weekend's Inland Northwest Festival 2002, the fashions centered on God (The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.)
  
  
• Vicar attempts six world records | Clive Southerton plans the largest street party in Wales, which will aim for big food, big crowds, and other feats (BBC)
  
  
• Apocalyptic — and atop the bestseller lists | Author Tim LaHaye takes on the final battle between good and evil (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  

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August (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46