Plus: Who's going to New York, the next big movie controversy, the fundamentalist press, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 8/01/2004 12:00AM
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Economy & work:
Nonprofit jobs fail to keep pace | While a rebounding local economy is causing charities to hire more help, it appears not to be benefiting trade associations, labor unions and political groups as much (The Washington Post)
The atheist sloth ethic | Why Europeans don't believe in work (Niall Ferguson, The Telegraph, London)
The virtue of idleness | From the Bible on, moralists and nags have promoted the benefits of hard work and early rising. They are mistaken (Tom Hodgkinson, The Guardian, London)
Deaths:
Three killed in Florida church bus crash | A church bus filled with teens was hit by an SUV and ran off a highway, plunging into a canal and killing three people, police said Sunday (Associated Press)
Nearly 1,000 mourn slain Georgia couple | Nearly 1,000 mourners gathered Monday for the funeral of a suburban Atlanta couple allegedly stabbed to death by their 15-year-old granddaughter and her girlfriend (Associated Press)
People:
T.D. Jakes talks relationships | One of America's most popular preachers came to the Westchester County Center last night and said he wasn't going to preach (The Journal News, White Plains, N.Y.)
Two blue-blood theologians switched sides on belief in the Bible's personal God | Gordon D. Kaufman rejected him, Alister McGrath embraced him (Associated Press)
Canada & religion:
In God they trust | Gulf grows between Canada, U.S., on religious issues (Victoria Times Colonist, British Columbia)
The leading religion writer in Canada … Does he know what he's talking about? | Tom Harpur says there is no evidence that Jesus of Nazareth ever lived. Wha? (W. Ward Gasque, History News Network)
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