Activists recite gay Christ poem | In a face-off Thursday over Britain's 17th-century blasphemy laws, sidewalk preachers bellowing biblical verses drowned out a group of free-speech activists who read a homoerotic poem about Jesus Christ on the steps of a central London church (Associated Press)
Interfaith relations:
Baptists and Islam | Franklin Graham and Jerry Vines are anything but religious bigots (R. Albert Mohler Jr, The New York Times)
Rising threat of Hindu extremism | While the Western World worries about Islam, the specter of Hindu nationalism carries the potential of threatening the stability of the Indian subcontinent and the world beyond (H.D.S. Greenway, The Boston Globe)
Church Life:
Churches freshen up century-old tradition | As churches compete with sports and other camps to reel in children, vacation Bible schools all over the country are becoming more innovative and entertaining so they can instill religious and life lessons in their youngest parishioners (Lexington [Ky.] Herald-Leader)
It's summertime, and the pews are empty again | Clergy members are finding creative ways to keep their congregations from straying away during the summer months (The New York Times)
How locations matter for church weddings | Britain's office for national statistics reports on the first increase in marriages since 1992. (The Guardian, London)
Science and Health:
Attending religious services may help heart health | Diabetics who attend religious services at least once a year are found to have lower levels of a marker of inflammation linked to heart disease than those who never attended religious services. (Reuters)
Faith questioned at recent International AIDS Conference | Roman Catholic Church — and to a lesser extent other world faiths and denominations — were criticized for failing to talk about the disease openly and preaching social mores that conference participants considered unrealistic or to be impeding efforts to stop the disease's rampant spread in poor regions, especially Africa (Associated Press)
Assault plans on Iraq:
Archbishop attacks Iraq invasion plan | Rowan Williams among those denouncing plans to attack Iraq as "immoral and illegal" (The Daily Telegraph, London)
New Vatican dioceses rile Russian church | The Russian Orthodox Church leveled new charges Monday that the Vatican is proselytizing at Orthodoxy's expense. (Chicago Tribune)
James Dobson the empire builder | Some say he's insightful, some say he's dangerous, still others say he just needs to keep his focus on the family (Chicago Tribune)
Separation anxiety | Church of England resists disestablishment (Editorial, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Now God can be a woman again | The religion of the ancient world, of Homer and Plato and Ovid, was not dead but a live tradition (Tony Grist, The Guardian, London)
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