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Books:

• God's pragmatist | A review of Charles Taylor's Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited (New Republic)
  
  
• Findings of fiction | Stephen Carter is easy to pin down on his legal views. His novel is another case. (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Tracing a nonbeliever's journey from conversion to disillusionment | Another review of Carolyn Briggs's This Dark World (Los Angeles Times)
  
  

Technology:

• Church of England deal on mobile masts | The Church of England is today heading for a massive row after clearing the way for phone masts to be installed in the spires and towers of thousands of churches. (London Evening Standard)
  
  
• At Seattle Pacific University, love is no longer blind, but envisioned by computer | After one too many Friday nights hanging out with his five roommates, J.R. Willett decided there had to be a better way to enjoy the prime of his life. And get class credit. And maybe a job. (Seattle Times)
  
  

Crime and justice:

• Bible student arrested in net sex sting | Jonathan Kolmorgen was interim youth pastor too (WLWT, Cincinnati)
  
  
• Teenager guilty of killing vicar who befriended him | Court told how clergyman was drowned and corpse dismembered (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Police say girl missing from church a runaway | Rebecca Aleman, a 14-year-old home-schooler, called to say she was okay (Houston Chronicle)

Sex abuse scandal:

• Job isn't over yet for bishops | They must now attend to the difficult task of tying down the many loose ends in their new reform policy (Associated Press)
  
  
• Suit's sordid saga of gay Rev. & go-go teen | Among other allegations, the suit says the Rev. John Thompson looted $14,000 from a candy drive - and bragged he was untouchable because "he could bring down half the [Brooklyn] diocese with what he knew" about other gay priests. (New York Post)
  
  
• Also: Gay Rev. denies rectory romps (New York Post)
  
  
• Also: Rev. backs principal in lawsuit | A Queens parochial school principal who angered Catholic Church leaders by accusing a priest of looting school coffers to pay for a gay lover has won the backing of a prominent local Catholic educator (New York Daily News)
  
  
• Also: Principal accuses pastor | Suit alleges misuse of funds, harassment (Newsday)
  
  

Other stories of interest:

• Please God, deliver us a clever atheist | Church looking for real debate (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• The faith of our fathers is sometimes a tight fit | Forlorn teenagers seek desperately to claim their parents' faith for themselves, yet they somehow fall short of the mark, time and time again. (Randall Balmer, The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Son lives to further father's legacy | Allan Streett saw his father gunned down. Now he follows in his footsteps (Associated Press)
  
  
• Muse's flock to buy, return to church | Two congregations estranged in Pr. George's (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Recession vs. Sept. 11 | Terror attacks prompt flood of donations, but economic woes take a toll (ABCNews.com)
  
  
• Stadium from time of Jesus uncovered | Romans may have used Jewish-built structure as arena and prison, archaeologist says (Associated Press)

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