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In her brief article “Not Just for Abortion Anymore” (Wired, March), Laura Fraser reports that researchers at Stanford believe RU-486 may “dramatically help in the treatment of major psychotic depression, which causes delusions and hallucinations, and often ends in suicide.”
Since Doug has a Christianity Today tie, and thus might be shy, let me jump in and note that the magazine’s weblog has an interesting follow-up detail on the evangelistic pilot.
Still catching up with recent magazine stuff as we get this blog rolling. There was an interesting point recently in the Weekly Standard about religious terms and definitions and labels. This is important, because we are about to enter into another hurricane of election-year speculation on the power or lack thereof of the Religious Right. Right?
Most media were fairly restrained in covering the weekend’s news that an American Airlines pilot asked Christians to raise their hands and share their faith during a flight from Los Angeles to New York — but some headline-writers had fun with it: “Coffee, Tea or Jesus?” (CBSNews.com), “God only knows what this pilot was thinking” (The Winnipeg Sun) and the inevitable “On a wing — and a Prayer” (Herald Sun, Australia).
The focus of this blog is on mainstream news outlets, as opposed to commentary magazines. Still, we also like to note publications that include news and commentary on the power of faith and issues of religion as a regular part of what they do.
