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• Riordan can learn from the Mormons | You gain adherents by standing for something, not by watering down your beliefs (Gary Lawrence, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Silence isn't golden | Confront culture or accommodate it? Religious broadcasters' dispute raises old questions (Edward E. Plowman, World)
  
  
• Church and president | After more than a year in office, Bush has become more open about his religious beliefs—and its influence on his work (Martha Brant, Newsweek)
  
  

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore:

• Lawyer: Alabama Justice did not advocate execution of gays | Opponents are lying about Roy Moore's beliefs (Associated Press)
  
  
• Monument suit moves forward | Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is scheduled to give a deposition April 8 (The Gadsden [Ala.] Times)
  
  

Faith-based initiative:

• Churches, children, and government money | How faith-based initiatives and vouchers can increase churches' accountability (Marci Hamilton, Findlaw.com)
  
  
• Bush: Faith groups have role in welfare plan | Faith-based initiative again tied to welfare reform (CNN)
  
  
• Mud bowl | The state of the faith-based initiative (Marvin Olasky, World)
  
  

Education:

• Crusade divides students | Christian push at University of Northern Florida leads to sign thefts, lively debates (Jacksonville Times-Union)
  
  
• Bringing together faith and reason | God and science enjoy a peaceful co-existence in most religious schools—Catholic schools have taught evolution and the origin of the species in science classes for decades. (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
  
  
• Faith in our schools | Values are an intrinsic part of teaching (Elaine Storkey, The Times, London)
  
  

Medical and life ethics:

• When does a group of cells become a person? | Britain debates ethics of embryo research (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• New medical oath no cure for critics | Christian bioethicist Nigel Cameron says it's too watered down (Fox News)
  
  
• Also: Hypocritical oath | Doctors replace Hippocrates with a liberal mission statement (World)
  
  

Sex & marriage:

• "Without this ring … " | A divorce ceremony can help ease the grief and pain at the end of a marriage (Time)
  
  
• Abstinence-only initiative advancing | President Bush proposed a budget for 2003 that would raise federal spending on "abstinence only" education (The New York Times)
  
  

Abuse:

• Aid groups find rampant child sex abuse | Relief workers in Africa routinely exploit young refugees, agencies report (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• African refugees condemn sex abuses (BBC)
  
  
• Lawmakers criticized for gutting clergy bill | Massachusetts House inserted a provision allowing churches to decide, according to their own ``rules or practices,'' whether to report child abuse. (Boston Herald)
  
  
• Lawyers say victims need more help | Abuse revelations spark emotional crises (Boston Herald)
  
  
• Priests joining to discuss their church's future (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Pastor admits lie on celibacy | George Spagnolia says he's falsely accused of child molestation (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Also: Accused Lowell priest gets eviction notice (Boston Herald)
  
  

Crime:

• Bible verses barred in Cruz sentencing | Both sides planned on drawing on Scripture in death penalty case (The Seattle Times)
  
  
• 'Troubled soul' causing trouble for Pittsburgh church | Pastor says burglar needs help, not prosecution (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  

Church life:

• Who goes to church? | Older Southern women do; many Catholic men don't (ABCNews.com)
  
  
• Rector's ethics are questioned | Parishioners charge he plagiarized; he is suspended (Detroit Free Press)
  
  
• Abbey's 'secret' chamber opening to public | Visitors will be allowed in to the 600-year-old Medieval Abbot's Dining Hall as part of the Queen's Jubilee celebrations (Ananova)
  
  

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February (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46