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• Expert: Religion made Smart vulnerable | Shared Mormon background allowed his hold over her to become stronger (Associated Press)
  
  
• Mennonite midwife reports to jail for 97-day stay | Freida Miller will remain incarcerated unless she tells who gave her the drugs that she illegally used to treat a patient (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)

Church life:

• Church votes to fire pastor who had service during Super Bowl | Three deacons and three trustees who didn't attend received a letter from the pastor, dismissing them from their positions as deacons and trustees (The Birmingham [Ala.] Times)
  
  
• Secretive sect softens ban on outside contact | Brethren priests admit 'hasty' decisions split families (The Guardian)
  
  
• Immigrants worship more | Attendance down for Canadian-born, StatsCan finds (Toronto Star)
  
  
• Left by her husband, hurt by her church | Efrain Lopez returned to the priesthood in 1992, leaving his wife of 20 years $60,000 in debt (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Graceful dwelling | John General lives in the former All Saints Church of Easton, Md. (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Keeping the faith | An Oklahoma preacher whose "Gospel of inclusion" has made his fellow clergyman decry him as a heretic remains undaunted in his belief that everyone is entitled to go to heaven (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Earlier: Heresy Charge Torpedoes Pastor's Political Debut | Tulsa Christian leaders reject Pearson's 'gospel of inclusion' as universalism (Christianity Today, June 12, 2002)

Television:

• Pat Robertson aids Disney in DirecTV flap | Can Pat Robertson's faithful keep the ABC Family cable channel beaming down from the heavens? (The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Brand new Jesus | The old Jesus' effectiveness has been minimalized by … shall we say an "overactive" public relations team. Who exactly should be the "new" Jesus? Fred Rogers. (Wm. Steven Humphrey, Portland [Ore.] Mercury)

Politics and law:

• Campaign trails now stop for religion | Candidates feel comfortable, even obligated, to express their beliefs and explain how moral values shape their political judgments. (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
  
  
• Religious fright | The Left is appalled by President Bush's faith (Dave Kopel, National Review Online)

• A Milwaukee election may test voter view of vouchers | April 1 will be a day of reckoning for the five pro-voucher representatives who hold a one-vote majority on the nine-member Milwaukee School Board (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Dispute flares over crosses on brick path | The dispute stems from a fundraiser for the school's parents group, which sold bricks on a "Walkway of Fame" in front of the school for $50 each (The Washington Post)

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