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• Wiccan group halts plans after Hoopeston meeting | Citing an atmosphere of intolerance, and fear for their safety, Wiccan leaders said they are abandoning their dream of opening a school that teaches the alternative religion in Hoopeston (The News-Gazette, Champaign, Ill.)
  
  

Money and business:

• Jesus on the job | More businesses are bringing worship into the workplace (Religion News Service)
  
  
• Shopping is not sacred | In the malls of modern Britain, Mammon rules by default. But our correspondent, recently returned from California, detects a spiritual longing too (Catherine Lucas, The Times, London)
  
  
• For tourism, it's 'Christmas in July' | 30,000 black church members visit city to pray -- and spend (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  

Education:

• ACLU drops challenge to Nevada policy on graduation prayer | Attorney says his group has right to revive lawsuit if Clark County School District allows prayer at future ceremonies (Associated Press)
  
  
• McCoy replacing Weems as president of St. Paul School of Theology | Myron F. McCoy will become the first African-American to lead a predominantly white United Methodist seminary (The Kansas City Star)
  
  

Racist graffiti at Bethel College:

• Racist message at Bethel College was free speech, attorney says | Thomas Fowler initially complained to college officials that someone else had written the graffiti (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
  
  
• Graffiti called free speech (Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.)
  
  
• Lawyer defends racist graffiti as free speech (Associated Press)
  
  
• Earlier: Bethel student accused of terror threat (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
  
  

Media:

• Sojourners editor wants to inspire people to improve the world | The biggest conflict facing people of faith today is not between belief and secularism, says Jim Wallis. It's between hope and cynicism. (San Antonio Express-News, Tex.)
  
  
• Faith in journalism | Americans are among the most religious people on earth, but several studies over the past two decades have shown a remarkable lack of thoughtful media coverage of religion (Julia Duin, The Washington Times)
  
  

Other stories of interest:

• Pursuing happiness in our time | With all due respect to life and liberty, it is this third battleground — characterized not as a fixed goal but a constant chase — that both animates Americans' daily lives and ties them in knots (John Leland, The New York Times)
  
  
• Raided Lost Ark returns home | A replica of the Biblical Ark of the covenant, or tabot, has been taken back to Ethiopia and an Irish doctor was responsible (BBC)
  
  
• Finding that today's students are bright, eager and willing to cheat | Students acknowledged a willingness to compromise their values and to cut corners ethically and professionally to advance their careers. They said they knew right from wrong and intended to follow a strict code of values after they gained power and authority (The New York Times)
  
  
• God doesn't bless only Americans | I have always wondered why, during times of war, politicians end speeches with the intonation "God Bless America." (Tom Wharton, Salt Lake Tribune)
  
  
• Expectations are high, problems are vast, for new archbishop | After more than a year of mounting anger and disillusionment, Boston's Roman Catholics appear to be swept off their feet by their new archbishop, Sean P. O'Malley (The New York Times)
  
  

• Is Google God? | Google, combined with Wi-Fi, is a little bit like God. God is wireless, God is everywhere and God sees and knows everything (Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times)
  
  

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