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Lieberman and Santorum may introduce their bill, called the Charity Aid, Recovery and Empowerment Act, as early as today.

World pulls out the big guns against the TNIV
Weblog was surprised last week when World magazine only devoted a few words to the introduction of the TNIV. After all, this was the magazine that raised such a ruckus over the Inclusive Language New International Version five years ago. It turns out the magazine was just taking its time to load for bear. Both publisher Joel Belz and editor Marvin Olasky devote their columns to the new translation this week. "Those of us at World find it hard to comprehend how the publishers of the TNIV would—for the second time in five years—play so fast and so loose with the trust it took a whole generation to build," writes Belz. Olasky is even more pointed: "It may be time to add IBS [the International Bible Society] and Zondervan to a long list of illustrious names: universities like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and hospitals with 'Presbyterian' and 'Baptist' in their titles, that lost their theological saltiness over the years. So many groups once stood for biblical truth and no longer do so."

This week also saw a column Weblog has been expecting since the announcement of the TNIV: the liberal response. "I'd argue that the IBS isn't going far enough," Desiree Cooper writes in the Detroit Free Press. "Even as they are changing 'brothers' to 'brothers and sisters,' one thing will remain the same: God will still be a 'He.'"

Freeing the Burnhams:

• 'Are they [free] or are they not?' Senator asks Armed Forces on Burnhams | Statements of denial by government officials of the story are not sufficient, says Opposition Sen. Blas Ople (The Daily Tribune)
  
  
• Burnham letters sporadic, fearful | The latest developments in the attempts to rescue American missionaries in the Philippines (The Wichita Eagle)
  
  
• U.S. troops to remain at field camps | Manila says Americans training soldiers to fight Muslim extremists won't patrol. (Associated Press)
  
  

Religious freedom:

• N.Y. school ordered to let kindergartner say grace | Kayla Broadus, 5, was stopped from praying with friends Jan. 15 at her elementary school in suburban Wilton (Associated Press)
  
  
• U.S. judge upholds pants-only policy | Manufacturing firm had faced a civil-rights suit by woman who's religion doesn't allow her to wear men's clothing. (The Indianapolis Star)
  
  
• Woman asserts right to wear her cross | Says she was fired for not taking it off (The Washington Times)
  
  
• McSally believes career has been harmed | Lt. Col. Martha McSally believes the U.S. military's embrace of a Muslim black garment has cast a shadow on her career (Associated Press)
  
  

Persecution:

• China lets Bush speak out on freedom | President is to put religious freedom at the top of the agenda for his visit this month to Beijing (The Times)
  
  
• China Bible smuggler 'appeals conviction' | Yu Zhudi says he was forced into confession (BBC)
  
  
• In Russia, regions curb spread of foreign faiths | Orthodox Church sees others as rivals (The Washington Post)
  
  

Church and State:

• Panel likes patriotism of 'In God We Trust' | State House committee votes to post motto in every public school in Florida. (The Orlando Sentinel)
  
  
• Declaring Liberia a Christian state wouldn't help | In the long run, the society could be plagued with religious intolerance, thereby sparking off a new wave of civil strife. (Editorial, The News, Monrovia)
  
  

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February (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46