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Religiously scientific, or not?

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The Templeton Foundation gave its annual million-Euro prize this week, and The Guardian‘s science correspondent Ian Sample focused on the religion and science combo more than anything else, even though its recipient says “I’ve got no religious beliefs at all.”


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On faith? Future king, queen and 'sin'

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Every morning, there’s a newspaper or two that lands in my front yard and another one on the front steps of my office on Capitol Hill. At the same time, I receive “push” emails pointing me toward the top stories in a few other newspapers. This is all normal, of course, in this day and age. And then there’s the iPad barrage.


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Attack of those 'religious conservatives'

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Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that the professionals who run many crucial mainstream newsrooms seem to be throwing up their hands, editorially speaking, when it comes to accurately describing the cracks and divisions inside the complex world of Islam?


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A vague Presbyterian sexual-abuse scandal

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In this day of tight budgets and a shrinking supply of space in major newspapers, it says something when the editors of the Washington Post devote a giant chunk of A1 turf to a story about a church controversy. This was certainly the case with the recent story that ran under the headline, “Vienna Presbyterian Church seeks forgiveness, redemption in wake of abuse scandal.”


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