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• Gays challenge Alpha course | Gay Men Against Alpha says evangelistic course promotes homophobia (RainbowNetwork.com)
  
  

Higher education:

• From literary theory to grace before meals | Folks at the Protestant school I teach at seem to think I belong to the Cult of Kali and attended the Temple of Doom. Actually, I'm Roman Catholic. (Thomas Hart Benton, The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  
  
• Westmont College installs its 7th president | Stan D. Gaede replaces David Winter (Los Angeles Times)
  
  

Crime and death:

• Churches say bill is too lenient | Setting up a possible confrontation between Protestant and Catholic leaders, the heads of two Protestant denominations yesterday criticized proposed legislation aimed at stopping clergy sexual abuse as too lenient (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Priest tried to kill me - pregnant lover | 26 year old survived a hammer attack and several stab wounds by her secret lover, a married priest, after she refused to abort their twins (City Press, Johannesburg, South Africa)
  
  
• Apostle predicts own death - God says not yet | A Reformed Apostolic Church leader who believed his death was imminent as predicted by a dream his daughter had, and had planned his funeral for midday on January 28, did not die as he planned. (City Press, Johannesburg, South Africa)
  
  
• Plus: Apostle still not dead (South African Press Association)
  
  

Catholicism:

• Scalia questions church's position | Supreme Court justice Roman Catholic judges who believe capital punishment is wrong should resign. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Pope 'wanted to sell Pieta' | But potential buyer died before sale could be completed (The Times, London)
  
  
• Also: Pope 'tried to sell masterpiece' (The Daily Telegraph)
  
  

Counting church members:

• Church finds its flock of 330,000 lost sheep | Weekday services ignored in earlier count (The Times)
  
  
• Church attendance tops 1m mark after recount (The Guardian)
  
  
• Church is cautious on 'increase' in attendance (The Daily Telegraph)
  
  
• Earlier: Vicars fiddle congregation figures to avoid church 'tax' (The Daily Telegraph)
  
  

Popular culture:

• Faith and football | Bills' Riemersma attends church's bowl viewing (The Holland Sentinel)
  
  
• A bad boy of hip-hop turns the other cheek | A former rap star known as Ma$e is now ministering to an Atlanta congregation (The New York Times)
  
  
• Tavener's prayer, sung by Björk, is backing for gay sex show | One of Britain's greatest living classical composers didn't know about use in pornographic display (The Sunday Times)
  
  

Other stories of interest:

• Anglican Church to pursue its own lawsuit settlement | Splits from other churches negotiating native-school abuse compensation (The National Post)
  
  
• Fantasia: The Gospel according to C.S. Lewis | Does Narnia speak less directly to our time, or to the children of our time, than Middle Earth or Hogwarts? (The American Prospect)
  
  
• Wayne Pederson criticized for comments on NRB role | Christian right demands leader step down for saying Christian radio should be less political (The Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
  
  

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