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• Range of Canadians give bottom line on SCOC backing of so-called spanking law | Friday's Supreme Court of Canada ruling upholding the so-called spanking law drew a flood of reaction from everyone from young people to grandparents (Canadian Press)
  
  
• Canada's top court upholds parents' right to spank (Reuters)
  
  
• Spare us the "spare the rod" | Canada tries to sort out the good spankings from the bad (Dahlia Lithwick, Slate)
  
  

John Geoghan prison murder report:

• Geoghan report faults prison | Officials blamed in fatal transfer (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Inquiry lists errors in killing of pedophile priest in prison | The death of John J. Geoghan, who was killed in his cell, was a result of failures by the state prison system to protect him, an investigation has found (The New York Times)
  
  
• Report criticizes guards in Geoghan death | A series of trumped-up discipline reports by guards helped trigger the transfer of pedophile priest John Geoghan to a maximum-security prison — and into an environment that would eventually kill him, an investigation concludes (Associated Press)
  
  

The Bible:

• Lost in translation: Joshua's spies were not carrying grapefruits | A unique institute invites representatives of tribes and ethnic groups, largely from African to spend a year in Jerusalem during which they translate the Holy Scriptures into their native tongue (Ha'aretz, Tel Aviv)
  
  
• Exhibit gathers editions of every major English translation of the Bible | Southern Methodist University's Bridwell Library is presenting "The Bible in English: Before and After the Hampton Court Conference, 1604" (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  

Money & business:

• Bible publisher may leave Elgin | Cook Communications was told by the Illinois appeals court that it is required to pay property taxes for the nine acres it owns (Daily Herald, Chicago suburbs)
  
  
• Powerless man uses Jesus, pink palette in protest | When times got tough, landowner Jonathan Greg Dugdale called on Jesus. Then he painted the Lord pink, propped him along Bill Russell Road and dared the neighbors to complain (The Tennessean, Nashville)
  
  
• Battle of the godly gadgets | Nine new church products, including a karaoke hymn player, will be battling it out for a new award at an exhibition in Devon (BBC)
  
  
• Research around the world links religion to economic development | Forget investment and savings rates, worker productivity and wage scales to determine which countries will become richer or poorer. What really stimulates economic growth is whether you believe in an afterlife — especially hell (The New York Times)
  
  

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