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• Area sees hope in Bush's faith plan | The plan could provide Kansas with money to treat nonviolent drug offenders (The Wichita Eagle)

Monk dies during monastery stand off:

• Monk in rebelling Greek order dies in accident | A monk who was a member of a conservative order that had been told to leave Mount Athos died late Saturday after he drove a tractor off a cliff (The New York Times)
  
  
• Greek hermit rebel monk killed | Accidentally drove his tractor off a cliff in an attempt to dodge police who have barricaded the rebel monastery (Associated Press)
  
  
• Greek monks guard faith and sacred ground | The ultra-conservative Esfigmenou monastery has become the unlikely setting of a holy war, or at least an extremely nasty spiritual spat over who says prayers, and which ones (The New York Times)

Space shuttle tragedy:

• Church establishes link between faith and space | Congregation that lost two members aboard Columbia reflects close ties between scientific exploration and religious devotion (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Columbia crew united in faith | Astronauts described their experience in space in spiritual terms (The Washington Post)

Missions and ministry:

• New purchase has ministry flying high | Arctic Barnabas Ministries ministers to ministers prone to burnout in the Alaska Bush (Peninsula Clarion, Kenai, Alaska)
  
  
• Inmates seem to respond to faith-based program | Those who took part less likely to commit new crimes, report says (Associated Press)
  
  
• Fellowship finds peace on the waves | Church ministry members gather to count their blessings on beach (The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.)

Church life:

• Most new Lutheran clergy are women | Women also increase share among other traditional male professions (Helsingin Sanomat, Helsinki, Finland)
  
  
• Pulpit & Pew Report: Clergy pay causing problems for churches | Low and unequal wages paid to clergy threaten to turn their "calling" into a job—and to turn away seminary students (Duke University press release)
  
  
• The faithless faith worker | Must I disclose my doubts to my congregation, knowing it would cost me my job? (The New York Times Magazine)

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