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• Where's Moses? | The ACLU searches for the Ten Commandments in Utah (The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• City Council votes to appeal Ten Commandments ruling | LaCrosse, Wis., council moves to pursue appeal in 7th Circuit after federal court orders monument's removal from public park (Associated Press)
  
  
• New front in religious battle | Commandments to be protected in spending measure (The Hill, D.C.)
  
  

Church and state:

• Federal court upholds its ban on VMI prayers | An evenly split federal appeals court yesterday upheld its decision striking down the Virginia Military Institute's suppertime prayers as unconstitutional, refusing to reconsider an earlier ruling that said the 50-year tradition violates the First Amendment rights of cadets (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Also: Court won't review VMI prayer ruling (Associated Press)
  
  
• Gladstone revises solicitation ordinance | New ordinance specifies that no city permit is required for political or religious canvassing. The old ordinance required a permit for most door-to-door activities (The Kansas City Star)
  
  
• Christian tutors don't cross line | Even though critics charge it pushes the boundaries of church and state, it's hard to argue with the anecdotal evidence provided by teachers (Editorial, The Denver Post)
  
  
• Courts weighing rights of states to curb aid for religion majors | Eleven states prohibit aid for the study of theology (The New York Times)
  
  
• Also: Flunking tolerance | States shouldn't exclude theology from student aid (Editorial, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Department of Children & Families urges spread of character program | The Character First! program has sparked controversy on grounds that it breaches the wall dividing church and state (The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla.)
  
  
• County's 'approved religions' for official prayer: dangerous and wrong | Prediction: Once government promotes or funds an unpopular religion, support for church-state separation will suddenly soar (Charles Haynes, First Amendment Center)
  
  
• Board's not hired to evangelize | I am not, by any stretch of either conscience or imagination, an expert on anything concerning religion. Except for two things: It starts an awful lot of cruel, bloody wars, and it doesn't belong in government (John Hamner, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Fla.)
  
  
• Street preacher files federal lawsuit | Escambia, arresting deputies named as defendants (Pensacola News Journal, Fla.)
  
  

Advertising:

• Drop image of Christ on the cross, advertisers tell churches | Instead, advertisers say churches should highlight community life, the chance to sing, hear a good sermon and have a heart-to-heart chat (The Scotsman)
  
  
• Also: 'Designer' ad campaign for church | Churches are being urged to launch an advertising campaign stressing the social side of services to attract successful people in their thirties and forties (BBC)
  
  
• Also: Church must stop preaching to the converted, say ad agencies | Traditional images of Christ on the cross and biblical quotations in bill-board adverts are a turn-off for church goers, advertisers have proclaimed today (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Jesus in the passing lane | Maybe "How Would Jesus Drive?" is a better question (Marshall Essig, The Denver Post)
  
  

Missionaries murdered in Solomon Islands:

• Solomons warlord in court | Harold Keke surrendered to the Australian-led peacekeeping force (BBC, video)
  
  
• Also: Solomons' PM embroiled in deaths of captured missionaries | There are growing calls within the Anglican Church of Melanesia for an independent inquiry into the deaths of six missionaries held hostage by the Solomon Islands warlord Harold Keke (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  

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August (Web-only) 2003, Vol. 47