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Evolution & creation:

• 80 years ago, they inherited the wind | More than 60 unpublished photographs taken during the Scopes trial, a seminal event in the debate over evolution and education, have been found (The New York Times)
• Catholic experts urge caution in evolution debate | Scientists, theologians take issue with Schönborn's op-ed article (National Catholic Reporter)

Education:

• Hope starts leadership program | It'll be run by Doug Koopman, who left a tenured position at Calvin to start it up (The Grand Rapids Press)
• Abstinence-only program suffers cash crunch | Three-year grant has expired (Palm Beach Post, Fla.)

KOCE:

• KOCE sale heads back to courtroom | Judges may schedule new hearings in clash between Daystar, Coast Community College District (Daily Pilot, Newport Beach, Ca.)
• Appeals court to review decision on KOCE-TV sale | Judges last month had reversed the deal that put the PBS station in a foundation's hands after a Christian broadcaster made a better offer (Los Angeles Times)

People:

• What will Terrell do? | The Eagles' reluctant receiver is reaching for the sky, invoking Jesus in his contract squabble (Phil Sheridan, The Philadelphia Inquirer)
• Earlier: Rooting for T.O. | Why Terrell Owens irritates most of us most of the time (Mark Galli, Christianity Today, Feb. 11, 2005)
• Jessica Simpson fires back at Christian critics | "That's why I didn't end up going into the Christian music industry" (WENN)
• Bishop Spong steps up fight against evangelism | Time hasn't mellowed John Shelby Spong (NorthJersey.com)
• Making a slam dunk for Christian fellowship | Bible is playbook for this league (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Money & business:

• Appeal over Sunday work sacking fails | A devout Christian who says he was sacked for refusing to work on Sundays lost the latest round of his legal fight against his former employers yesterday (The Guardian, London)
• The gospel of marketing Jesus | Why are some of the world's biggest companies are teaming up with churches and religious festivals to sell their brand in Christians? (Anderson Cooper 360, CNN)

More articles of interest:

• Keeping members a challenge for LDS church | Mormon myth: The belief that the church is the fastest-growing faith in the world doesn't hold up (The Salt Lake Tribune)
• Hollywood movie role for chapel | Filming of a Hollywood movie based on the best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code is to take place at the Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh in September (BBC)
• No ring, no rights | Unmarried heterosexual couples inhabit a legal limbo. Clare Dyer punctures the myth of common law marriage and looks at how cohabitees may be brought in from the cold (The Guardian, London)
• Patterns: Do prayers for the heart patient help? | Prayer from a distance did not significantly improve the outcome for common elective cardiac procedures performed on a group 737 patients, a new study reports? (The New York Times)
• Earlier: Weblog: Study Says the Prayers of Multifaith Strangers Won't Keep You from Dying (July 15)
• Sudan refugees plan, dream of return home | Refugee camps' gradual stirring to life with internally displaced people hoping to return to their once-violent home villages comes as another sign that Africa's longest-running civil war is indeed fading into history (Associated Press)

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