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Should Universal Health Care Cover Faith Healing?
Amy Sullivan
May 14, 2009
Print: Time
Practitioners of Christian Science and other alternative therapies are intent on influencing the coming health care reform process.
Apple: You Can’t Play Jesus on iPhone
Brian X. Chen
May 12, 2009
Print: Wired
Apple has rejected an iPhone app that would enable users to fashion their mugs into portraits resembling Jesus Christ.
Take the ladder test
Bruce Hood
May 8, 2009
Print: Guardian.co.uk
Fifty per cent of Britons won’t walk under one. Would you? Do you touch wood? Psychologist Bruce Hood believes even the most rational among us are more superstitious than we’d like to admit.
God Talk
Stanley Fish
May 4, 2009
Print: The New York Times
In the opening sentence of the last chapter of his new book, “Reason, Faith and Revolution,” the British critic Terry Eagleton asks, “Why are the most unlikely people, including myself, suddenly talking about God?”
Helping Christians Reconcile God With Science
by Amy Sullivan
May 1, 2009
Print: Time
Biologist Francis S. Collins attempts to bridge the gap between science and religion.
Some Stem Cell Research Limits Lifted
GARDINER HARRIS
April 19, 2009
Print: The New York Times
The Obama administration announced Friday that it planned to lift some but not all federal financing restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research, drawing criticism both from abortion opponents and from scientists who had expected a more liberal policy.
Loud But Not Clear
Julian Baggini
April 15, 2009
The Guardian, UK
Atheists must turn down the volume and have a real conversation - or lose out to the fluffy brigade
What do you get if you divide science by God?
Mark Vernon
March 23, 2009
BBC News
A prize-winning quantum physicist says a spiritual reality is veiled from us, and science offers a glimpse behind that veil. So how do scientists investigating the fundamental nature of the universe assess any role of God, asks Mark Vernon.
Cardinal Mahony is expected to testify in a clergy abuse lawsuit in Fresno
Victoria Kim and Duke Helfand
March 16, 2009
Los Angeles Times
Two brothers say they were molested by a priest for 14 years at a church in a small town north of Bakersfield. For part of that time, Mahony served as an administrator in the Fresno Diocese.
Britain Refuses Entry to Dutch Lawmaker Whose Remarks and Film Have Angered Muslims
John F. Burns
February 14, 2009
The New York Times
A Dutch member of Parliament who has compared the Koran to “Mein Kampf” and blamed Islamic texts for inciting the 9/11 attacks was detained by immigration officials at Heathrow Airport on Thursday and forced to board the next flight back to the Netherlands. His deportation had been ordered by Britain’s home secretary on the grounds that his presence in Britain endangered public safety.
A Neurosurgeon, Not A Darwinist
Michael Egnor
February 6, 2009
Forbes
Neurosurgeon denies the evidence for evolution and supports Intelligent Design
Religion and science have always coexisted
Jonathan Jones, art critic
January 22, 2009
The Guardian, UK
Nouveau atheism presents a false view of the clash between science and religion. Many of history’s greatest scientists were influenced by faith and superstition
