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• Evolution on trial | Ignorance of science hazardous to next generation (Editorial, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.)
  
  
• University looks beyond white | SPU today opens national conference of multicultural Christian students (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
  
  
• Baptist school issue rejected | Measure stopped short of asking parents to pull children out of public schools (Associated Press)
  
  
• Seminary president to retire in January 2006 | Carnegie Samuel Calian, arguably among the most successful seminary presidents in the nation, will retire in January 2006 after 25 years at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  

Sex & marriage:

• Sex-ed critics intend to fight | Pastors and parents of Montgomery County said yesterday they are uniting in opposition to a new sex-education program in high schools that they think promotes homosexuality (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Sex education, Texas-style | Here it is, just days after the red states gave their presidential seal of approval to the man from Texas, and we've already been treated to another skirmish in the culture wars. The Texas Board of Education has given its educational seal of approval to what may soon be dubbed Red Sex Ed (Ellen Goodman, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Conservative groups denounce 'Kinsey' film | Indignant conservative groups are protesting this week's opening of the film "Kinsey," denouncing it as propaganda seeking to glorify the researcher they blame for inspiring the sexual revolution (Associated Press)
  
  
• Marriages of convenience | What a military fraud case tells us about the future of marriage (Jennifer Roback Morse, National Review Online)
  
  

Television and film:

• KOCE sale officially over | But Daystar still appealing case (The Independent, Huntington Beach, Ca.)
  
  
• Brandon Davidson a believer | Amazing Race contestant Brandon Davidson has faith in the way he's portrayed (Herald Sun, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  
• A test of faith | A priest is granted a nine-day furlough from the Nazi camp Dachau, but is forced to make a terrible choice. The film "The Ninth Day" explores tensions between the Church and the Nazis, betrayal and the will to survive (Deutsche Welle, Germany)
  
  

Marriage:

• Georgia marriage measure challenged | Suit charges amendment is unlawful (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Want a divorce? You'll have to talk before you walk, Ruddock rules | Couples seeking divorce will be compelled to visit one of the Government's 65 relationship centers and may be charged a fee for preparation of their legal separation (The Australian)
  
  

More articles of interest:

• Mass. legislators back work on embryonic stem cells | House and Senate leaders respond to Calif. initiative (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• A salute to First AME's Rev. John Hunter | The Rev. John Hunter of Seattle's First African Methodist Episcopal Church to Los Angeles, where he will head one of the country's most influential black churches (Editorial, The Seattle Times)
  
  
• Banking on their faith | A growing bank near Elk River is part of a movement that melds conservative Christianity into the workplace (Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.)
  
  
• Little town | Bethlehem (Pa.) residents follow their own Christmas star (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Religion news in brief | Women bishops in the Church of England, Episcopal Church's Pittsburgh Diocese votes leeway to disregard national church, United Methodists cite racism in Colorado seminary president's retirement, and most U.S. Protestant ministers believe salvation comes only through Jesus (Associated Press)
  
  

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