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Education:

• Scientists-professors to back evolution vs. intelligent design | Stephen Jay Gould, Kenneth Miller and Lawrence Krauss will weigh in on Ohio's increasingly quarrelsome debate over what to teach students about the origin of life. (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
  
  
• Keeping the faith | While there are several home school organizations throughout the region, there is one that looks for divine intervention when it comes to education (Daily Herald, McDonough, Georgia)
  
  
• Bob Jones U. opens its doors (and mind) to minorities | The letter that BJU recruiters sent to minority students has to be a masterpiece of persuasive writing unsurpassed in the annals of American belles-lettres (Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Bad schools or bad choices? | When the voucher goes to the religious school, the state is paying to teach kids the fourth R: religion (Ellen Goodman, The Boston Globe)
  
  

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore:

• Ruling or stump speech? | Anti-gay opinion sparks debate on judicial elections (Legal Times)
  
  
• Chief justice applauded, condemned | Local and national homosexual and religious groups Friday demanded Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's resignation because of a legal opinion in an adoption case involving a lesbian mother. (Times Daily, Florence, Ala.)
  
  
• Protesters call for Moore's resignation (The Gadsden [Ala.] Times)
  
  
• Earlier: Weblog: In Alabama Supreme Court Decision, Chief Justice Roy Moore Rants Against Homosexuality (Feb. 22)
  
  

Politics:

• Kenya split over Bush abortion policy | Family planning organisations in Kenya say they are being forced to close clinics in the slums after a cut in funding from the U.S. Government (BBC)
  
  
• Nevers Mumba in pulpit, politics, and books | Zambian pastor lost election, but is still firmly in politics (The Times of Zambia)
  
  
• Ashcroft uses vocal talents to help mark seminary's anniversary | Attorney General sings at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Associated Press)
  
  

Sexuality & marriage:

• Pastors propose churches form own courts | Minister-performed divorces? Idea raises constitutional doubts (Eastside Journal, Bellevue, Wash.)
  
  
• Sweden seeks to bolster gay couples' right to adopt | Passionate debate anticipated, but bill likely to pass win in June 5 vote, with passage into law in 2003 (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Cover up, Nigerian brides told | Anglican church says it will not officiate at any marriage where the bride wore a skimpy dress or gown (SAPA)
  
  

Pop culture and media:

• Duke's grandson, pilgrim in spirit | Son of John Wayne's daughter, the newly ordained priest says Mass at his childhood chapel. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Five questions with Mary J. Blige | Singer says she's undergone a spiritual and emotional transformation since her hard-knock beginnings on the R&B scene (Associated Press)
  
  
• 'VeggieTales Live' has a message | Larry, Bob and a bushel basket of their wacky vegetable friends are featured in a singing, dancing, theatrical version of the popular VeggieTales videos that use humor to teach children morality lessons (Associated Press)
  
  
• 'Big Brother' priest suspended after his jailhouse antics rock Sydney | Kevin Lee spent three weeks sharing a cell with a strip club manager for a radio stunt (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  

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February (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46