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The services, Offner told Inside Higher Ed, didn't meet the spiritual needs of evangelical students. "It's not that our students hate" the official Protestant chaplains, he explained. "This just isn't how they want to worship, and we don't all worship the same way."

Inside Higher Ed has many reader comments.

2. Cross-eyed in Scotland
Sometimes missing a story is a good thing. There was quite an uproar in British papers over the weekend about Artur Boruc, the Polish goalkeeper for Celtic Football Club, who was allegedly warned by Strathclyde Police that he could be arrested on breaching the peace charges for making the Sign of the Cross in front of fans of a rival Glasgow team, the Rangers. Celtic fans are generally Catholics; Rangers fans are often Protestant Unionists. Ruth Kelly, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Britain's equality office) even defended the Sign of the Cross on the BBC. It turns out, however, that police warned Boruc about "making 'come on' gestures," not for crossing himself. But that's not terribly interesting, so Scottish politicians and others are still arguing about the Sign of the Cross.

3. Remarriage after divorce still called adultery in the Church of God of Prophecy
The Pentecostal denomination originally split from the Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.) "over disagreements, in part, over divorce and remarriage," The Tennessean explains. "Two years ago, the denomination voted to give local churches greater flexibility in allowing people remarried after a divorce to become members. Previously, pastors had to seek exceptions from state overseers for such individuals to join their churches." Last week, the denomination was due to consider changing its stance that remarriage after divorce is a form of adultery. But the general overseer of the church, Bishop Fred S. Fisher Sr., put off official debate until 2008.

"No, no groaning," Fisher said, according to The New York Times. "The counselors have felt along with me that it would be improper to push this over."

Want some background reading in preparation for next year's battle (which, if we've learned anything from other denominational fights, will surely be hotter now that it has been postponed)? When Christianity Today posted its editorial on "The Christian Divorce Culture" in 2000, we also posted online our 1992 series on divorce and remarriage. Scroll down this page to read it.

4. Uganda cease-fire went in effect today
"The truce does not include details on disarming the rebels or integrating them into Ugandan society," the Associated Press notes today. "Those terms will be part of a final accord to be negotiated at talks in Juba, Sudan, with leaders of Sudan's southern region serving as mediators." Uganda has also promised not to turn leader Joseph Kony over to the International Criminal Court, which has issued arrest warrants. So, as with so many cease-fires, the peace may not yet be won.

5. David Jenkins banned from local pulpits
For all those who thought it was a bit odd that Greg Boyd lost 1,000 of his 5,000 members for criticizing conservative politics rather than for arguing that God doesn't know the future, here's a much better story. David Jenkins, the former Bishop of Durham, argued against the physical resurrection of Jesus, the literal truth of the Bible, and the continued existence of his own Church of England. But it wasn't until he used the words "bloody" and "damn" in a sermon that he got was banned from two area churches. Ah, priorities.

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