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• Join in national day of prayer | Today, people who always pray each day will pray. Others will make a special effort to offer a prayer because this has been declared a national day of prayer by President Bush. (Editorial, The Bismarck Tribune, N.D.)

Katrina relief:

• Evacuees criticize Dream Center | Those in the shelter say they have been asked to consent to drug tests and room searches. A pastor calls the charge 'almost too crazy to respond to' (Los Angeles Times)
• Evacuees get faith foothold | At the gates of Camp Katrina, it has become a familiar sight: church vans coming and going, shuttling hurricane survivors to Wal-Mart, church services or the post office (The Denver Post)
• Church provides evacuees a haven | Members open their homes to aid displaced (Houston Chronicle)
• Schools stretched, Shreveport diocese seeks federal help | Schools stretched, Shreveport diocese seeks federal help (The News-Star, Monroe. La.)

More Katrina:

• Congress passes new tax incentives to encourage donations | Provisions -- which would expire January 1, 2006 -- would in most cases apply to any charitable donations, not just gifts related to Hurricane Katrina (The Chronicle of Philanthropy)
• Where was God? | In the aftermath of cataclysms like Katrina, the old questions sometimes yield new answers (Nancy Gibbs, Time)
• Medford church's sign at odds with the time | A fundamentalist Medford church came under fire yesterday for posting a sign on its front lawn suggesting the death and destruction Hurricane Katrina wreaked on New Orleans was divine retribution (Boston Globe)

Religion & politics:

• Turning the pulpit into a political platform is a long tradition that should continue | I don't agree with what I believe to be narrow-minded views on such matters as gay rights. But I agree with the right of the right to preach about them (Herb Brock, The Advocate Messenger, Danville, Ky.)
• Be separate from them | Christians move to South Carolina with plans to secede (Philip Jenkins, The Wall Street Journal)
• Intelligible design| Intellectually, scientifically, even artistically, fundamentalism is a road to nowhere, because it insists on fidelity to revealed truths that are not true (Katha Pollitt, The Nation)
• Christianity's religion problem | We've entered a Sept. 11 era of religious fanaticism, making the role of religion in public life deeply suspect. At exactly the moment when the need for effective Christian leadership could not be greater, it remains difficult to find (Joseph Loconte, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
• What a friend we have in . . . Che Guevara? | By promoting a poster which makes the son of God look like Pol Pot in kindergarten, they have not only made the mistake of following a fashion which went out with the fondue, they have also invited uncomfortable parallels between two figures who have benefited posthumously from the power of propaganda. How could they have got it so wrong? (Lucy Bannerman, The Herald, Glasgow)

John Roberts hearings:

• Roberts sidesteps meaty issues for now | Chief Justice nominee John Roberts could not be pinned down this week on subjects like abortion and assisted suicide. Next month might be another story (Associated Press)
• Roe v. Roberts | If you're a conservative looking for a return to the good old days, you'll be disappointed with Roberts (Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post)
• 'I'm not an ideologue,' Roberts tells Senate panel | Saying that his loyalties are to the Constitution and "the rule of law," Roberts said that he had displayed no ideological bias during his two years as a federal appeals court judge and that he had, during 13 years in private practice, represented clients on all sides of contentious issues (The Washington Post)

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