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• No opening statement for defense in church slayings | Lawyer wanted to argue mental illness, but defendant Peter Troy refused, saying they could build a defense based on witnesses testifying to his good character (The New York Times)
  
  
• More hostages taken in Solomons: report | Many of them are feared to be members of the Anglican Church of Melanesia (AFP)
  
  
• Kidnapped seminarians still missing | Around 30 of the 40 seminarians kidnapped last month are still in the hands of the LRA rebels, Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala, Archbishop of Kampala, has told Missionary News Service (Catholic Information Service for Africa)
  
  
• Tracking device tracks down burglar | Milwaukee man is suspected of more than 50 burglaries to churches throughout southeastern Wisconsin (Lake Country Reporter)
  
  
• Handwriting sample sought from suspect in Bethel College hate crime | Police say Thomas C. Glander, who is also a Bethel seminary student, has admitted to some instances, but not all (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
  
  
• Earlier: Student charged in graffiti case | A Bethel Seminary student who reportedly confessed to scrawling a racist message on his own pickup truck was charged Wednesday in connection with one in a string of eight racist incidents on the Arden Hills campus (Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.)
  
  
• Also: Bethel student accused of terror threat (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)

Racism:

• An unfulfilled promise? | After a 1995 apology for racism, Southern Baptists say they're making progress toward including blacks in decision-making, but some complain it's not fast enough (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Methodists apologize to native tribes | In an emotional ceremony of "reconciliation and hope," leaders of the regional United Methodist Church apologized yesterday to Native Americans and to God for the "savagery" with which their ancestors treated Indian tribes (The Toledo Blade, Oh.)
  
  
• Bishop: 'We must preach against racism' | Bishop T. D. Jakes pastor of the 28,000-member Potter's House in Dallas, came to the National Conference on Racism in the Church with a reputation as one of America's best preachers, and he didn't disappoint (The Cincinnati Post)

Dead Sea Scrolls:

• Dead Sea Scrolls unrolled in Montreal | But the other objects on display in the new exhibit are important, too (The Gazette, Montreal)
  
  
• Miracle of the Dead Sea Scrolls | Some of the world's oldest biblical material is about to go on display in Canada for the first time and prove that tattered, 2,000-year-old fragments can still draw a crowd (The Globe & Mail, Toronto)
  
  
• Ancient treasures visit Quebec (Canadian Press)

Books:

• New Harry Potter will outsell Bible | By 50 to 1, say projections (Financial Times)
  
  
• Conspiracy of dunces | Bonkers religion replaces cold war paranoia on the US bestsellers list—but where does the Mona Lisa fit in? (John Sutherland, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Left Behind books bring bishops' retort | State's Catholic prelates say series gives wrong interpretation of the Second Coming of Christ (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Lost sheep can flock to new guide | Author shares her church-search experiences (The Toledo Blade)
  
  
• The heresy that saved a skeptic | What was it, Elaine Pagels wondered, that made Christianity so compelling, despite the obstacles of doctrine? (The New York Times)
  
  
• Also: 'Beyond Belief': Another gospel truth | The reward in Nag Hammadi, Elaine Pagels believes, may be a truer knowledge not only of Christianity, in whatever institutional form, but also of the other great religions (The New York Times)

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