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• Prolife ralliers say the future is on their side | Activists point to opinion polls (The Tennessean)
  
  
• Buses set to roll to 30th anti-abortion march | An odd consequence of the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion 30 years ago has been an annual boon to bus rentals (The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Abortion issue splits the faithful | Three decades of legalized abortion have polarized religion, and prospects for bridging the gap anytime soon look dim (San Antonio [Tex.] Express-News)
  
  
• Also: Roe v. Wade at 30 (San Antonio Express-News)
  
  
• Churches weigh in on legal, moral issues | What denominations have said about abortion (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Also: Life was never the same again after abortion (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Also: Public tends to take the middle ground | "American attitudes are remarkably fixed" says Gallup researcher (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Also: Unyielding positions on the front lines | Activists have more black-and-white clarity than most Americans (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Mother of all rights | Thankfully abortion wasn't legal until after I was born (Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• A tough Roe | Will the Democratic Party be abortion's final victim? (Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Abortion foes attack roe on new research | As science advances, some find arenas in which to seek a special status denied the embryo and fetus in the high court's 1973 ruling (Los Angeles Times)

LCMS drops Valparaiso University syncretism charges:

• Church absolves VU leader, 4 pastors | Valparaiso University President Alan Harre, university Pastor Joseph Cunningham and three other clergymen were cleared Friday of charges filed against them for their participation in a multi-faith Sept. 11 anniversary gathering (The Times, Northwest Indiana)
  
  
• Also: Church drops charges over Valpo University 9/11 event (Associated Press)
  
  
• Valparaiso University students question Sept. 11 complaints | Church leaders cleared the university president and pastor of charges related to a Sept. 11 anniversary gathering (The Times, Northwest Indiana)
  
  

Missions and ministry:

• Shorter terms, bigger dangers mark missionaries' careers | Ill-prepared short-timers are at risk; others work in unstable Muslim areas (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• Student-missionaries issue letter urging restraint in anti-Islam tone | Paige Patterson, president of Southeastern Seminary, says missionaries miss point of criticism (Baptist Press)
  
  
• Missionaries are resolute amid string of attacks | Despite recent fatal attacks on missionaries abroad, local evangelicals plan to intensify their efforts to spread Christianity throughout the world (St. Petersburg Times)
  
  
• Some groups criticized for disrespecting Muslim laws | Evangelical Christians working in Muslim countries have come under increasing criticism by those who say the missionaries are taking advantage of the poor (The Sacramento [Calif.] Bee)
  
  
• Couple's compassion flows to former slaves | A Boston couple saw Sudanese women and children being freed from slavery, and now plan to help them improve their lives (The Providence [R.I.] Journal)

Books:

• Basic help for digging out of debt | Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace: Revisited says that our inability to say "no" to stuff we don't need is a spiritual failing (USA Today)
  
  
• A Gen-Xer's bumpy spiritual path | Though Lauren F. Winner's Girl Meets God has several poignant chapters that deal honestly with her spiritual growth, it also has glaring weaknesses, many of which stem from the fact that the author, though obviously ambitious and sophisticated, is still finding herself (The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.)
  
  

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January (Web-only) 2003, Vol. 47