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Jesse Jackson admits fathering child out of wedlock:
- Jesse Jackson has love child | Took pregnant lover to meet Bill Clinton (New York Daily News)
- Jesse Jackson’s statement (Rainbow/PUSH press release)
- Scholar’s dalliance stuns her admirers (New York Daily News)
- Life in spotlight | Misstep isn’t expected to harm Jackson (New York Daily News)
- Politics & strange bedfellows (New York Daily News)
- How Jesse invented himself in Memphis (Michael Kramer, New York Daily News)
- Rev. is in a ‘sorry’ state (New York Post)
- Jesse Jackson admits fathering child out of wedlock (Chicago Tribune/Associated Press)
- The pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson (Frontline, Apr. 30, 1996)
Uh-Oh, Canada:
- Message to gay couples not political: Clarkson | Governor-General says she wishes to avoid sensitive issues (National Post)
- Bishops blast Clarkson for message to gay couple (The [Toronto] Globe and Mail)
- Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day reeling after settling defamation suit (Associated Press)
- Earlier: Bigotry Up North | An evangelical’s faith generated shrill criticism in a nation known for its tolerance. (Editorial, Christianity Today)
New York’s Roman Catholic Archbishop:
- Egan speaks softly, but carries a big staff (Rod Dreher, New York Post)
- Archbishop Egan: Ashcroft’s abortion views aren’t the only issue (New York Post)
John Ashcroft:
- Ashcroft says he would not challenge Roe ruling (The New York Times)
- Ashcroft on track for confirmation (Associated Press
- Conservatives Round Up Ashcroft Support (The Washington Post)
George W. Bush:
- Eugene Rivers decries ‘warfare’ against Bush by black leaders (The Boston Globe)
- Earlier: The Word on the Street | Eugene Rivers on faith-based urban ministry, the black church, and the “sexual holocaust” in Africa. (Books & Culture, May/June 2000)
- Where will he stand? | Bush faces difficult issues on gay rights (ABCNews.com)
Mythology myths:
- Stephen Hawking debunks astrology (Associated Press/Salon.com)
- The scholars and the goddess | Historically speaking, the “ancient” rituals of the Goddess movement are almost certainly bunk (The Atlantic Monthly)
Other stories of interest:
- New book tallies religions | Christianity still number one (Associated Press)
- Hungary to register churches | Will “clamp down” on ” interest groups or pseudo-churches” (The Budapest Sun)
- New effort in assisting jailed missionary (The Norway Post)
- Actor dies recreating missionary murder | Indian burned to death while playing commemorative role of Graham Staines (BBC)
- Human trade ring smashed (The Nation, Nairobi)
- Report says violent media harm kids | Surgeon general finds repeated early childhood exposure to entertainment violence causes aggressive behavior. (Los Angles Times)
- Missionaries flock to Britain to revive passion for Church (The Daily Telegraph, London)
- MP accuses Tories of ‘sinister’ drive for religious votes (The Guardian, London)
- Rare relics | Treasures from first Christian state (Armenia) on show for first time (The Guardian, London)
- Confessions of a lonely atheist | At a time when religion pervades every aspect of public life, there’s something to be said for a revival of pagan peevishness. (The New York TimesMagazine)
- Was Christian Science healer really just a heel? (The Boston Globe)
- And God said, Let there be Net | More on FellowshipChurch.com (Wired News)
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