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• Religion lawsuit against Independence schools settled | No one prevailed in lawsuit that accused the Independence School District of allowing a teacher to promote Christianity in CLASS (The Kansas City Star)
  
  
• Minister calls for a Christian party | A leading evangelical churchman today proposed Christians should form their own political party to field candidates at the next Scottish Parliament elections (The Scotsman)
  
  
• Don't separate Mosque and State | U.S. should stop trying to export its secular system to Iraq (Amitai Etzioni, Los Angeles Times)
  
  

E.U. Constitution:

• Godless in Brussels | New E.U. constitution jettisons Europe's Judeo-Christian heritage (John F. Cullinan, National Review Online)
  
  
• An oxymoron: Europe without Christianity | What kind of future can there be for a united Europe that disavows its own past? (Kenneth L. Woodward, The New York Times)
  
  

Music:

• Soggy ground chases Christian music festival from Huntingdon County to Hershey | Rural county will miss $500,000 festival haul from Creation (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Christian festival cultivates believers | Chapel pastor, other speakers find eager audience at Alive 2003 (The Beacon Journal, Akron, Oh.)
  
  
• Sandi Patty finds comfort in return to roots | Take Hold of Christ was designed to evoke the feeling of CLASSic Sandi Patty without resorting to re-creation (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  

Television:

• PBS finds faith | A new PBS documentary, God and the Inner City, shows how faith-based programs really can make a difference (Erin Montgomery, The Weekly Standard)
  
  
• A journey of faith | PBS documentary explores the power of religious faith throughout African-Americans' history (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Earlier: Jazz, Jesus, and Liberation | In This Far By Faith, Juan Williams argues that the spiritual journey of African Americans is essential to understanding America (Christianity Today, June 5, 2003)
  
  
• Bakker's back | Jim Bakker has made a swift journey from shamed to shameless (The Independent, London)
  
  
• Living a faith-filled life in an MTV-filled world | Matt Smith, whose Christian lifestyle stood out on "The Real World," will bring his message to local teens (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Of Bart and Homer, and the many ways of faith | If having "The Simpsons" as a centerpiece of discussions about religion seems somewhat incongruous, perhaps it shouldn't (The New York Times)
  
  

Film:

• God goes Hollywood | After decades of amateurish movies screened in church halls, Christian production companies in the United States have gone professional and their films are being screened alongside mainstream studio pictures (Le Monde diplomatique)
  
  
• Hollywood Christians issue casting call | A group of Christian directors, writers and producers has appealed to Congress to put its money where its mouth is and help them encourage more quality entertainment programming (Fox News)
  
  
• Questioning religion while opposing Hitler | With his documentary Bonhoeffer, which opens today in Manhattan, the director Martin Doblmeier has assembled a touching narrative on the nature of faith (The New York Times)
  
  
• In his image | Could God really look like Jim Carey in Bruce Almighty? (John A. Murray, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  

Pop culture:

• Religion Today: God at the diamond | With heavy competition for the sports dollar, Nashville's Class AAA team is trying to lure more Christians into the stands in this city some call the buckle of the Bible Belt (Associated Press)
  
  

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