If there is one edition of The Economist you should pick up off the newsstand, it is this week’s because of its special report on the state of religion in the world.
The Economist on the resurgence of religion
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When is a lawyer just a lawyer?
Let me state, right up front, that I am confused and the stories that I am reading in the big newspapers are not helping me.
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Prayer in the Indiana Statehouse
There’s been a surprisingly low level of news coverage on a trial judge’s ruling that “sectarian prayers” on the floor of Indiana’s House (the lower level of its General Assembly) violated the “constitutional separation of church and state.” Most recently, an appeals court tossed the case on procedural grounds, but didn’t look at the merits of the case because the plaintiffs didn’t have standing.
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Go ahead, count the Iraq ghosts
This is one of those GetReligion topics that I struggle not to write about day after day after day. I’m talking about the role of religion in the Iraq disaster.
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'If you won't kill her, we will'
The news in the Newsweek cover story about the chaos that is Pakistan is that it does not add more confusion (or much more) about the whole “moderate” Muslim mystery. In fact, there isn’t much content on the progressive side of Islam at all — which I guess tells us quite a bit about the state of things in what the newsweekly calls the “most dangerous nation” on earth.
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Punching my 'moderate' button again
I hit the wall on something this past weekend. But before I vent a bit, let’s flash back to one of the most candid and insightful statements in the New York Times self-study document (PDF) from a few years ago.
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Ghosts in Swiss cultural rage
Molly Moore of The Washington Post Foreign Service had a dramatic and tragic story in Tuesday’s paper that shows the surge of immigration — and racist attitudes — in the suburbs of Zurich, Switzerland.
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Ah, Turks and Armenians, move on!
I think we could use a bit of a flashback to an amazing column that I read this summer in the Turkish Daily News by the Muslim journalist Orhan Kemal Cengiz. This was, you may recall, a column titled “We Cannot Afford to Lose Our Armenians!”
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What is genocide vote actually about?
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