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• Religious book kept out of mail to U.S. soldier | N.C. father sues Postal Service to allow Bible verses in Mideast mail (The Charlotte Observer)

Faith and spirituality:

• Where is religion's spirituality? | The crux of the difference between religion and spirituality is this: While each religion subscribes to a unique body of beliefs, spiritual experience is the same for all people in all religions at all times (Mary Ford-Grabowsky, Newsday)
  
  
• Gossip: How telling tales affects us down to the soul | Often, exchange of information can take an ugly turn to a much darker side (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Resurrecting the church | The church, it is said, is only ever one generation from extinction - a precarious state in which it has notched up nearly two millennia. But many today consider its position as dire as almost any time in its existence (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  
• You don't need to believe in God to learn from religion | The common messages of Christianity, Judaism and Islam are too valuable to be ignored (Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian, London)

Clergy sex abuse:

• Lay group calls for New Hampshire bishop to quit | The New Hampshire chapter of a national lay Catholic group has called for the resignation of the head of the Diocese of Manchester and his deputy (The New York Times)
  
  
• Scandal called threat to free worship | Several legal scholars suggest that the legal system had overreacted and perhaps acted capriciously (The New York Times)
  
  
• Harvard doctor attends Vatican talks | Martin P. Kafka said the Holy See's approach to sexual abuse treatment ''is quite reasonable and very positive.'' (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Church disunity in the priest scandal | Church solidarity is the latest victim in the sorry scandal of priests sexually abusing young children (Editorial, The New York Times)

Other stories of interest:

• Some see a blessing, others a curse in a visiting python | Traditional villagers revere the snake as a harbinger of good fortune. Others, notably church leaders, see it as a symbol of evil (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Snake handlers hang on in Appalachian churches | While few outsiders are drawn to the dangerous and controversial practice, some predict it's future is assured (National Geographic News)
  
  
• King talk overlooks the King of Kings | They talked about King's relationship to such historical figures as Du Bois, Gandhi, Bunche, Rustin, Shuttlesworth and Mandela. They didn't talk about King's relationship with another historical figure, Jesus. (David Waters, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis)

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