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• Teen stripped of award | A New South Wales teenager has been stripped of her scholarship because only one of her parents is Protestant (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Spiritual aspects of ecology | John Carroll told parishioners at Christ Episcopal Church on Sunday that students in his class on ecological philosophy at the University of New Hampshire either revere him for his beliefs or castigate him for destroying their sense of the mainstream world. (Portsmouth Herald, N.H.)
  
  
• Let us reflect, not pray, schools urged | The Lord's Prayer and traditional hymns are to be replaced by spiritual reflection and "person-centred discussions" under radical new plans to revamp school assemblies in an attempt to reach out to children turned off by organised religion (Scotland on Sunday)
  
  
• Also: Religious reforms in schools don't have a prayer | Prayers and hymns will be replaced with spiritual "person-centred discussions" under new plans to overhaul traditional school assemblies (The Sunday Times, U.K.)
  
  
• Church college up for sale | The Church in Wales is inviting offers from potential developers after putting its ministerial training college in Cardiff up for sale (BBC)
  
  
• The bell tolls for the oldest Catholic school | St. Boniface, the oldest Catholic school on Long Island, will close in June after 147 years of operation (The New York Times)
  
  

School prayer:

• Call off the holy war | Manatee School Board is using faith to divide the community (Editorial, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Fla.)
  
  
• Manatee prayer lawsuit costs rise | The Manatee County School Board has already spent more than $10,000 to defend its right to pray and legal experts say costs could eventually exceed several hundred thousand dollars if the case advances all the way to the Supreme Court (The Bradenton Herald, Fla.)
  
  
• Couple hints at prayer solution | Steven Rosenauer, who filed a federal lawsuit with his wife Carol to stop prayer at school board meetings, said Monday he has contemplated ways to resolve the case (The Bradenton Herald, Fla.)
  
  
• Addressing prayer in public schools | Whatever guidelines come from the federal government, those who wish to pray can do so silently in school or out loud during specific times (Shirley Hickman, The Porterville Recorder, Ca.)
  
  
• Christian schools on financial rebound | Oshkosh facilities clear $90K debt, hire fund-raising director (The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wis.)
  
  

Teaching Evolution:

• Consider evolution and design | If Darwin's claim of "no-design" is scientific, then it is necessarily scientific to disagree. Further, if Darwin's claim of "no design" cannot be challenged, then it ceases to be a scientific theory and becomes an ideology (William S. Harris and John H. Calvert, The Kansas City Star)
  
  
• Ohio likely to put doubts into teaching of evolution | On Tuesday, the Ohio Board of Education is expected to approve model science lessons - including a 10th-grade biology lesson with a critical look at the theory of evolution (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
  
  
• Ohio school board okays evolution lesson | The state school board Tuesday approved a lesson plan for teaching evolution that includes what critics contend is a religious theory "cloaked as science" (Associated Press)
  
  

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