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• The morality of cloning | The anticloning bill is a dangerous exercise in panic-mongering that could retard or foreclose lifesaving advances in medicine. Nevertheless, critics of cloning and genetic engineering have valid concerns. (Cathy Young, The Boston Globe)
• Cloning for transplant may produce fatal genetic imbalances | Plans to clone human embryos to generate vital stem cells for transplant operations are likely to fail using the techniques currently available (The Independent, London)

• Documentary explores ritual of Amish temptation | Devil's Playground premieres tonight on Cinemax (The Dallas Morning News)
• Also: The dangers of a date with the outside world | Making a documentary about Amish teenagers abusing drugs and alcohol presents some obvious problems. (The New York Times)
• Gospel rocker faces trial as sex offender | Christopher Comtois toured and opened for Rebecca St. James. (The Orlando Sentinel)
• P.O.D. on the prowl for bad girls | Rap-rockers looking to sign all-female act to their new record label. (MTV News)
• Spiritual Survivors | The winner of this season's "Survivor" challenge added a new twist to the game's hygienic humiliations and multi-level betrayals: she invoked God's name to justify and defend her actions. (The Salt Lake Tribune)
• Anne Lamott's subversive faith | God used a tiny Presbyterian congregation to teach this best-selling author about the power of unconditional love (Presbyterians Today)
• An academic ready to take the plunge into novelistic success | Stephen L. Carter, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University, tall, slender, elegantly dressed in his beautifully cut sports jacket and silk tie, is so good he could be boring were he not the author of one of the season's biggest novels, The Emperor of Ocean Park, a legal thriller about black upper class America, to be published next month. (The New York Times)
• Also: Stephen Carter's Christianity Today columns
• British painter suffers crucifixion for his art | Sebastian Horsley, an artist from London has paid £2,000 to be crucified in the Philippines so that he could heighten his artistic senses by pushing himself to an "extreme of suffering" (The Daily Telegraph, London)
• God squad | The church can learn from faith in the beautiful game of soccer (Editorial, The Times, London)

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May (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46