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Abortion provider George Tiller shot to death at church in Kansas
Stan Finger
May 31, 2009
Print: Wichita Eagle
WICHITA - George Tiller, the Wichita doctor who became a national lightning rod in the debate over abortion, was shot to death this morning inside the lobby of his Wichita church.
Cardinal Keith O’Brien says money has caused MPs to ‘fall from grace’
Martin Beckford
May 31, 2009
Print: Telegraph
The love of money has caused politicians to “fall from grace”, according to the head of the Roman Catholic church in Scotland.
Cardinal Keith O’Brien also warned that society has become “amoral” because those in power refuse to tell the public how to behave.
Scientology Trial in France: Can a Religion Be Banned?
Bruce Crumley
May 29, 2009
Print: Time
Officials from the Church of Scientology’s French affiliate are in court this week, charged with fraud. But is it a case of religious intolerance?
Catholic orders plead poverty in Irish abuse
Shawn Pogatchink
May 28, 2009
Print: Associated Press
The Catholic orders responsible for abusing Ireland’s poorest children say they’re struggling to produce money to help their victims. Yet investigations into their net worth paint a very different picture — that of nuns and brothers with billions’ worth of carefully sheltered assets worldwide.
Let’s Talk About God
by Lisa Miller
May 28, 2009
Print: Newsweek
A new book by Robert Wright redefines the faith debate.
Tool use by non-tool-using animals: Sticks and stones
from The Economist print edition
May 27, 2009
Print: The Economist
Rooks, which do not use tools in the wild, can make and use them in the lab.
Fighting the Pakistani Taliban: A necessary catastrophe
The Economist
May 27, 2009
Print: The Economist
To fight militancy, Pakistan needs to conquer its radicalized north-west, then govern it.
Christians battle each other over evolution
Amanda Gefter
May 27, 2009
Print: NewScientist
The Discovery Institute, which promotes intelligent design, has launched a new website attacking the pro-evolution arguments of geneticist and evangelical Christian Francis Collins.
Christians battle each other over evolution
by Amanda Gefter
May 27, 2009
Print: New Scientist
The Discovery Institute, which promotes intelligent design, has launched a new website attacking the pro-evolution arguments of geneticist and evangelical Christian Francis.
Episcopal Church ousts 61 clergy in bishop dispute
Associated Press
May 27, 2009
Print: msnbc
Pastors aligned with ex-bishop who broke with church over homosexuality
Religions owe their success to suffering martyrs
Bob Holmes
May 27, 2009
Print: NewScientist
Willingness to endure suffering for your beliefs inspires others to believe too, according to an analysis of behavioural evolution.
Former Human Genome Project leader Francis Collins likely next NIH director
By Katherine Harmon
May 26, 2009
Print: Scientific American
Evangelical Christian, Francis Collins, is likely to run the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Christian Belief Through The Lens of Cognitive Science, Part 1 of 6
By Valerie Tarico
May 26, 2009
Print: The Huffington Post
” This article is the first in a series of six. Each takes a look at some part of our mental machinery, how it relates to our tendency toward religious belief.”
Oklahoma to display Ten Commandments monument at state capitol
BY MICHAEL MCNUTT
May 26, 2009
Print: The Oklahoman
An article outlining Oklahoma’s finalized plans to erect a monument to the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state capitol in Oklahoma City.
Sotomayor and the Culture Wars
Amy Sullivan
May 26, 2009
Print: Time
Cultural conservatives who were gearing up to use Obama’s first Supreme Court nomination as a fundraising opportunity will find Sonia Sotomayor a difficult sell.
How an Austrian Murder Brought Out the Army in Punjab, India
Madhur Singh / New Delhi
May 26, 2009
Print: Time
Caste rivalries and a fight over offerings at a cash-rich Sikh temple in Vienna echoed far and wide on Monday as sectarian violence once again erupted in India’s Sikh majority state of Punjab.
Woman who sees Christ in snack may put it on eBay
By Dan Koller
May 25, 2009
Print: Preston Hollow People
Image of Jesus Christ magically appears as a Cheeto.
Gay issues may splinter churches
Duke Helfand
May 25, 2009
Print: Los Angeles Times
National conventions of several Protestant denominations could intensify the long-running debate this summer.
War room is no place for Bible study
by James Carroll
May 25, 2009
Print: The Boston Globe
US military unduly influenced by an extreme kind of Christian evangelicalism.
Catholic man Kevin McDaid beaten to death outside his home by ‘football mob’
David Sharrock, Ireland Correspondent
May 25, 2009
Print: TimesOnline
A Roman Catholic man was beaten to death and another is in a critical condition after a sectarian attack in Northern Ireland on Sunday.
