The fate of embryos and treatments to screen them for disease made news in England last week — but few apparent ripples over here.
Jewish mythbusting at the Wharton School
As we’ve seen in press coverage over the past couple of months, the 50 billion dollar fraud allegedly perpetrated by financier Bernard Madoff has sparked debate and some soul-searching about Jewish identity in the Jewish community.
Who shepherds the shepherd?
We hear about the instances when well-known clergy crash and burn, like that of former Colorado mega-church minister Ted Haggard.
Can 800 British buses be wrong?
The viral growth of the atheist bus movement has been a godsend to writers on both sides of the Atlantic.
The art of covering Christian Science
Home to the denomination’s “mother church,” the city of Boston is ground zero for a small but influential American denomination. The Christian Science Church and its nineteenth-century founder Mary Baker Eddy continue to merit press attention, particularly in an American society that increasingly targets the link between mental and physical health.
Sue them: First Amendment news ghost?
We normally focus on covering news in our posts, rather than commentary about news. After all, everyone’s entitled to their opinion.
A pew more 2009 religion predictions
Following in the footsteps of Brother LeBlanc (or at a respectful distance behind him), here are a few semi-serious, and semi-safe, predictions for the New Year.
On the street where they live
Oh my, this is good religion reporting — that was my first thought when I got about halfway through the first in Laurie Goodstein’s New York Times series on overseas priests serving Catholic parishes in the United States.
Pullin' in the rich--A tail of London's soul revival
Why, as Time did last week, profile an evangelical course in Christian basics that began almost 20 years ago in a London Anglican church?