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"We really want the legislation badly," James Toweym director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, told the paper. "But this office isn't just about federal legislation. This office is going to move forward with the president's initiative."

The administration plans to teach more than 5,000 religious groups at seminars around the country about how to apply for federal grants. Among the suggestions: form organizations with neutral names. "[When] you run into an official who's an armchair First Amendment person," Towey said yesterday, "if you're 'John's Shelter,' you can go after the money but if you're 'St. John's Shelter,' you can't."

More articles:

• Pastor shot dead in Kokrajhar, India | National Democratic Front of Bodoland suspected (PTI)
  
  
• Regier's big test: balance faith, job | He says his views pose no conflict in heading Florida's Department of Children & Families (The Miami Herald)
  
  
• Troubled souls can have an email forwarded to God | A 650-year-old Scottish church has embraced technology by offering an online prayer service around the world (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Also: Church's prayers go online | The Rosslyn Chapel, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, is believed to be the first church in Scotland to launch a Post-a-Prayer online service (BBC)
  
  
• Public displays of affection | Gay union announcements come to the New York Times-and maybe your hometown paper, too (US News & World Report)
  
  
• The culture wars now have a global scope | The domestic culture wars trumpeted by folks like Pat Robertson and the Family Policy Network have morphed into a global culture war, a "clash of civilizations" that pits God-fearing Euro-American Christians (and the conservative Jews who love them) against godless Muslims, homosexuals, feminists and their ilk (Arlene Stein, Newsday)
  
  
• Lights! Camera! Apocalypse! | Washed-up Hollywood stars battle the antichrist and his smooth-talking liberal minions in the wacky parallel universe of "end-times" Christian movies (John Gorenfeld, Salon.com)
  
  
• Pastor criticized for teachings | Carlton Pearson, a high-profile pastor and Grammy-nominated singer, has paid dearly for straying from the orthodox evangelical theology he was raised to believe (Associated Press)
  
  
• Earlier: Heresy Charge Torpedoes Pastor's Political Debut | Tulsa Christian leaders reject Pearson's 'gospel of inclusion' as universalism (Christianity Today, June 12, 2002)

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