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• Lagos remains secular state, governor assures | Bola Ahmed Tinubu says he's been under pressure to adopt Shari'ah (This Day, Lagos, Nigeria)

• Manning breaks silence on Day | Book questions Alliance rival's judgment (Ottawa Citizen)
  
  
• Also: Preston on Stockwell: A man of poor judgment, little substance (Edmonton Journal)

Books:

• Faith marched on in horrors of war | The book, Faith Under Fire, recounts the Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox experiences of men on the front lines during World War 2 (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Back to basics | Colleen Carroll's The New Faithful combines first-hand reporting with social-science metrics to examine a remarkable trend toward religious orthodoxy among Americans born roughly between 1960 and 1983 (The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• All in our heads | According to the blank slate theory of human nature, we don't have any. (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Also: 'The Blank Slate': The evolutionary war | Steven Pinker sees human nature as largely inscribed by indelible genes (The New York Times)
  
  
• Feeling their pain | Why do so many otherwise kindly Christians and compassionate conservatives not only tolerate the widespread abuse of farm, lab and game animals but also routinely label those who attempt to defend and protect these animals as dangerous, misguided radicals, dismissing every argument for mercy? (The Washington Post)

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