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Education:

• Justices to hear case of 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' banner at school event | Supreme Court agrees to decide whether student had a right to display his sign (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Also: Court may untangle student-speech cases with 'Bong Hits' | But whether Morse v. Frederick will end confusion for school administrators or add to it is far from clear (Tony Mauro, First Amendment Center)
  
  
• University holds first dance | Not since John Brown University was founded in 1919 was dancing allowed on campus. Now students at the Christian school are swinging into a new era (Associated Press)
  
  
• Rhode Island College faces lawsuit over removing signs | The Rhode Island Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union yesterday claims the public college violated the First Amendment rights of a student group by removing signs that said "Keep your rosaries off our ovaries." (The Providence Journal, R.I.)
  
  
• Texts not yet decided for Wilson Bible class | Wilson County high school students may have to wait until March to find out what curriculum they'll follow if they choose to study the Bible next year (The Tennessean, Nashville)
  
  
• Religious exemptions rise | Parents citing beliefs as reason for home schooling increases (Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.)
  
  
• Is this blackmail? | The full text of the e-mail former Baylor president and chancellor Herbert Reynolds sent to the editors of book about the Baylor 2012 plan that was to be published by the university, but now no longer will be (via Rod Dreher, Beliefnet)
  
  

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Evolution:

• Darwin as theory now parish policy | Officials say vote gives freedom to teachers (The News-Star, Monroe, La.)
  
  
• School Board commended for science education | Also criticized (The News-Star, Monroe, La.)
  
  
• Darwin policy changes little | School Board action last week seems to have provided a remedy where there was no problem (Editorial, The News-Star, Monroe, La.)
  
  
• Should religion be part of science teaching? | An alternative to Darwin's evolution theory has caused controversy (Liverpool Daily Post, England)
  
  

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Evangelicals and Pentecostals:

• Theologian aims to clarify a loaded word's meaning | Seminary leader Richard Mouw defines the "e-word," explains its history and tells why it's an important label (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Evangelicals: 'your next-door neighbor' | An interview with Believers author Jeffery L. Sheler (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• City of angels, and Pentecostals too |The latest American religious movement had its genesis just outside the borders of Little Tokyo (Los Angeles Times)
  
  

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Other stories of interest:

• Foreign clergy may get break | Fast tracking possible (Toronto Sun)
  
  
• Church plants vineyard in cemetery | A Catholic Church official seeking to provide wine for services and a scenic backdrop has planted a vineyard on three acres of a California diocese graveyard (Reuters)
  
  
• Doctors aren't chaplains | The misguided effort to meld religion and medicine (Richard P. Sloan, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• The Christian Right goes back to Bible Boot Camp | After a study revealed that less than 10% of evangelicals were bible literate, James Dobson's Focus on the Family is desperately taking a two-day multi-media Bible boot camp on the road, selling "truth" for $179 a seat (Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet)
  
  
• Protecting children | Chalk it up to an oversight, but the Indiana General Assembly needs to act quickly to close a gap in the protection of the thousands of children who are cared for in unlicensed child care homes or child care ministries (Editorial, The Journal Gazette, Ft. Wayne, Ind.)
  
  
• Tell it on the mountain | May we not seek the destruction of our enemies but their heart-felt conversion to Jesus (Kristine Christlieb, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Tex.)
  
  

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