Note: Weblog will return to its regular format later this week. Until then, enjoy commentary-free “Weblog lite.”
Focus on the Family lawsuit:
- Focus sues over ban of ads (The [Colorado Springs] Gazette)
- Christian group sues Florida transit agency for rejecting ads (Associated Press)
- Christian group sues PSTA over ad space (St. Petersburg Times—you’ll have to search the archives)
Indianapolis Baptist Temple loses appeal:
- Supreme Court rejects Indianapolis church’s appeal in tax dispute (Associated Press)
- The end may be near | Baptist Temple expects marshals ‘at any time’ after Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal (The Indianapolis Star)
- Baptist Temple plans rally, keeps fighting (Associated Press/WRTV)
- Indianapolis Baptist Temple (official site)
John Ashcroft:
- Ashcroft: ”As a man of faith, I take my word and my integrity seriously.” (The Boston Globe)
- Text: John Ashcroft’s Senate confirmation hearing (The Washington Post)
- Ashcroft pledges to protect all (The [Baltimore] Sun)
- Ashcroft says faith won’t intrude (The Detroit News)
- Ashcroft: Bound by duty, will enforce ‘wrongly decided’ laws (Newsday)
- Ashcroft seen as test of Bush strategy to woo conservatives (International Herald Tribune)
- Conservatives like Ashcroft (Associated Press)
- At the Ashcroft hearing, an opinion sideshow (The Washington Post)
Nigerian flogging:
- Nigeria’s legal problem (Editorial, The Ottawa Citizen)
- The West is flogging an agenda | Like Elian Gonzalez, Bariya Ibrahim Magazu has become a flash point for other causes, says Nigerian expatriate Ken Wiwa (The [Toronto] Globe and Mail)
- Nigerian teen mother fears lashing (The Toronto Star)
- Nigerian girl’s lashing sentence cut (BBC)
- Nigeria postpones flogging of teen (Associated Press)
- Nigerian teen accepts flogging sentence (The [Toronto] Globe and Mail)
- Nigerians here object to flogging for girl, 17 (Chicago Sun-Times)
Christianity and the Internet:
- Christian Web sites grow at steady pace (The Washington Times)
- Church salutes digital age by adding dot.com to name (The Dallas Morning News)
- Online crusade aims for biblical literacy (Cox News Service)
Other articles of interest:
- Church decline: fact or journalistic fiction? (The Times, London)
- Thai troops nab twin boy leaders of “God’s Army” (UPI)
- Embryos offered for adoption (The Denver Post)
- Atheists unite against clericalism (The Moscow Times)
- Pastor loses part of leg when ice falls from church roof (Associated Press)
- Recruiting pitch: Monastic life, for 3 days (The New York Times)
- Bishop T.D. Jakes provides spiritual nourishment through many media (The Detroit News)
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