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...enthusiasm caps a decade of extraordinary growth for Christian youth groups in middle and high schools. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1990 upheld a law effectively allowing prayer clubs to meet on public school property, if they did so outside of class hours and without adult supervision. Since then, thousands of Bible and prayer clubs have whooshed into what their members saw as a God-shaped vacuum. The new groups are not refuges for dweebs. Unlike their evangelical parents, who often defined themselves as outsiders, today's campus Christians, says Barnard College religion professor Randall Balmer, "are willing to engage...
...Mania in Pontiac, Mich., speaker after speaker preached to a throng of 73,000 on Cassie's life and death (she once attended a Teen Mania meeting), and thousands signed an enormous condolence card. The same thing happened all over the U.S. during observances of the National Day of Prayer on May 6. A videotape made by Bernall's parents on which her mother states that "Cassie was born for this" spread from group to group like wildfire...
Though unaffiliated with any religious denomination, Talent House calls itself a Christian school, where the day opens with the Lord's Prayer, and grace is spoken before each meal--character-building tools unavailable, of course, to the nation's public schools. But we live now in the bloody backwash of Littleton, Jonesboro and several other schoolhouse horror stories, not to mention the more quotidian indicators of failing character, from widespread cheating to gang activity. Across the country, schools both public and private are turning to programs of character education in hopes of inoculating kids with the values of civility...
...murderous storms. It will also fuel a campaign to assure that new homes built in Tornado Alley without traditional storm shelters include reinforced safe rooms. But the main message, at least according to the Daily Oklahoman, lay elsewhere. As it happens, last Thursday was the 48th annual Day of Prayer. "Right now in Oklahoma," the newspaper editorialized, "it sure seems like common sense to make every day a day of prayer...
...Cassie's church friends now talk about kids who were once awkward about the whole subject of faith coming up to them in the halls and asking them about it. The youth ministries are flooded with calls and new visitors. At a Denver prayer lunch last week, faith and practice sat down together: everyone attending was asked to agree to mentor an "at risk" kid. "That would change the city," said organizer Don Reeverts. "Let's put some shoe leather on our prayers...