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• Invocation by atheist prompts walkout in Charleston | Some of the half-dozen or so Charleston City Council members who left Tuesday said their religious beliefs compelled them to leave (Associated Press)
  
  
• To the Arabs, this crusade too will fail | Time is a mighty force. But a new Saladin would hasten the process (James Reston Jr., Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Rabbi warns: Some Christians are attempting to convert Jews | Speaker says congregations should watch out for Southern Baptists, Assemblies of God (The Journal Star, Peoria, Ill.)
  
  
• Finding room for religious freedom | After protesters drove pagans from one meeting spot, a Carroll church offered sanctuary (The Baltimore Sun)

Education:

• Home schoolers get out of the house | As home schooling enters the mainstream, the adults who promote it have sought more ways of getting home schoolers out of the house, to broaden their social circles, and help them acquire the leadership credentials needed for college applications (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Calvinism making a comeback on some college campuses | The best antidote for "aggressive Calvinism" is a good dose of Calvin and a bigger dose of the Bible, a trio of Baptist religion professors told their colleagues (Associated Baptist Press)
  
  
• Lawsuit against school revived | Critics say the public schools' teaching method is religious (Sacramento Bee)
  
  
• Student numbers surge at religious schools | Almost all religious groups have increased student enrollments (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's religious studies program soars | It has become popular since its inception (Green Bay [Wisc.] Press-Gazette)
  
  
• Timothy Weber named president of Memphis Theological Seminary | Was at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary (The Commercial Appeal, Memphis)

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