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War in Iraq:

• USS Lincoln crew renews faith under roar of jets | Religion provides solace in combat (The Detroit News)
  
  
• Pope cites peace movements in opposing war | The vast antiwar movement in the world shows that a "large part of humanity" has repudiated the idea of war as a means of resolving conflicts between nations, he says (Associated Press)
  
  
• Weaknesses and moral inconsistency led us to war | International alliances must be rebuilt so the world does not fragment again (Rowan Williams, The Times, London)
  
  
• Conversion plays a role in the war | There is a holy-war motif on the part of both the United States and Iraq (Leo Sandon, Tallahassee Democrat)
  
  
• Arab Christians squeezed by conflict | Beleaguered Arab Christians are finding their position among majority Muslim populations more precarious than usual as the US and UK pursue military action in Iraq (BBC)
  
  
• From the fear of being killed comes the fear of killing | There is a line early on in the Bible that encapsulates precisely the dilemma of the war in Iraq (Jonathan Sacks, The Times, London)

Religious thought divided on war:

• Faithful fall on both sides of war | Conflict splits local Christians into camps of peace, patriotism (The Denver Post)
  
  
• A test of faith | Onset of war with Iraq also highlights the divide among Americans (Grand Forks [N.D.] Herald)
  
  
• James Dobson supports war efforts in Iraq (Press release)
  
  
• Churchgoers seek solace and calm in face of war worries | They are images that can shake the rock of faith: A purported American serviceman sprawled dead, his arm reaching out. The worried faces of captured soldiers forced to tell the world who they are (The Orange County Register)
  
  
• Religious leaders play a part in shaping views on war | The United States has probably never gone to war with less backing from the nation's religious leaders (The New York Times)
  
  
• Christians not universally opposed to war with Iraq | Institute for Religion and Democracy publicizes new Gallup Poll (The Toledo Blade)
  
  
• Clergy grapple with Iraq war | Whether for U.S. attack or against it, they put their trust in God and prayer (Akron Beacon Journal)
  
  
• How faiths view the war | As the war against Iraq gets under way, the conflict within America's religious communities is escalating as well (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Worshipers struggle with idea of war | Diverse views emerge among congregations (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
  
• Religious leaders regret war, support troops | Religious leaders in Casper and elsewhere in Wyoming generally regret the failure of negotiations to disarm Saddam Hussein, but expressed support and offered prayers for the troops in the war with Iraq (Casper Star-Tribune)

Some Sunday sermons focus on war, some don't:

• Ministers don't skirt talk of war | The large war-time turnouts predicted by some ministers didn't seem to materialize, but that didn't keep preachers from touching on the topic in one way or another (The News, Stuart, Fla.)
  
  
• Bay Area residents wrestle with divisions | On the first Sunday since the United States invaded Iraq, many Bay Area pastors steered clear of sermonizing about the war (San Jose [Calif.] Mercury News)
  
  
• As war heats up, pastors face divided flocks, divided feelings | Church members are not looking for "the pastor's op-ed piece on the war," says Craig Barnes. "They are looking for something transcendent as a way to rise above the storm." (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Local church services reflect on war | Sunday worship services drew somber Christians who turned to their faith to cope with the emotions of a nation at war (The Wichita Eagle)
  
  

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March (Web-only) 2003, Vol. 47