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4. Who needs Ralph Reed anyway?
Forget Georgia. The Reed story wasn't about Reed anyway—it was about the Abramoff stink. The New Yorker makes a good case that the real place to measure the influence of the Religious Right is Ohio. Want to read Christianity Today's take on Ohio's gubernatorial race? Subscribe now and read all about it in our upcoming November issue.

5. "The Irish equivalent to the Dead Sea scrolls"
A bulldozer in Ireland uncovered a psalter that may be as much as 1,200 years old. National Museum of Ireland director Dr. Pat Wallace said it was "remarkably well preserved." One psalm was immediately legible to scholars, but apparently not to reporters—some say it was Psalm 89, others say Psalm 83. "Nobody has found anything like this for centuries—we are going to find it very hard to find people who know about it. … In my wildest hopes, I could only have dreamed of a discovery as fragile and rare as this. It testifies to the incredible richness of the early Christian civilization of this island and to the greatness of ancient Ireland." I should probably refrain from putting a shameless plug for my book, Christianity and the Celts, somewhere in here.

Quote of the day:

"That may make people feel good for a few hours but (a) it's unlikely to have any impact; and (b) a quick fix will not deliver a sustainable peace in the Middle East."

—A spokesman for Tony Blair, asked to comment about requests by the Archbishop of Canterbury and other religious leaders that he call for a ceasefire in the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel.

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Politics :

1. Evangelicals rally for Israel, warn of Iran threat | Five months after its founding, Christians United for Israel brought 3,500 Christians to Washington July 18-20 to lobby Congress on behalf of Israel. The political action group aims to become the Christian equivalent of the influential Jewish lobbying organization, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (National Catholic Reporter)
   
   
2. Chaput hears load of gripes | Anglo parishioners frustrated about immigration's impact (Rocky Mountain News, Denver)
   
   
3. Civil rights hiring shifted in Bush era | Conservative leanings stressed (The Boston Globe)
   
   
4. Moderates: Dems should talk about religion | The view, espoused by Democrats attending the centrist Democratic Leadership Council's annual meeting, could irritate liberals who advocate a strict separation of church and state (Associated Press)
   
   
5. Matchup made in heaven | How faith figures into the governor's race (The Columbus Dispatch, Oh.)
   
   

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