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• Christian poets perform as 'laborers to win souls' | These guys have a way with words—a gift they're using to spread the Word (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  

Education:

• Looking at education, religiously | Christian Educators Assn. celebrates 50th year at 34th annual convention at Hilton Glendale (News-Press, La Crescenta, Calif.)
  
  
• Bible break helps students, study says | A secular group evaluates an off-campus program at Oakland public schools. (The Sacramento Bee)
  
  
• County wants permanent injunction for Christian school | Injunction sought to prevent the Cornerstone Christian School in Coralville from operating what authorities have said is an illegal child care facility. (Sioux City, Iowa, Journal)
  
  
• University of New Orleans sued over leaflet policies | Missionary wants to hand out tracts (The Times-Picayune, New Orleans)
  
  
• Also: University of New Orleans sued over blocking distribution of tract (Associated Press)
  
  
• Cult worries surround Bible group | University Bible Fellowship, an international evangelical Christian group, has become a fixture—in some cases, a controversial one—on college campuses (Daily Herald, Chicago suburbs)
  
  
• UCLA to survey college students on religion | Researchers at UCLA will spend $1.9 million to survey the religious habits and attitudes of college students, an area they say has been largely ignored by campus leaders (Los Angeles Times)
  
  

Books:

• Deciphering The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown may or may not actually believe what he writes, but he writes so well in this genre that the average reader will not even care. That is the problem. (Crosswalk)
  
  
• Also: Does The Da Vinci Code crack Leonardo? | The short answer is no. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Moving spirit | A review of A Brand From the Burning: The Life of John Wesley by Roy Hattersley (Stewart Weaver, The Washington Post)
  
  
• Mary Magdalene: Saint or sinner? | A new wave of literature is cleaning up her reputation. How a woman of substance was "harlotized" (Time)
  
  
• To be Catholic in America | A review of Peter Steinfels's A People Adrift (Kevin Starr, Los Angeles Times)
  
  

Anti-missile nuns sentenced:

• Despite prayer: prison | Protesters' pleas don't sway judge as nuns are sentenced (Rocky Mountain News, Denver)
  
  
• U.S. gets justice; nuns get prison (Diane Carman, Denver Post)
  
  
• Missile silo martyrs | The secular media swoon as nuns attack nukes (Vincent Carroll, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  

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