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Plus: The New York Times and The Boston Globe look at special treatment for religious groups, Amish forgiveness shocks the nation, Billy Graham's grandson preaches his first crusade, and other stories from online sources around the world.
The need to believe | In his new book, Richard Dawkins argues that God is a delusion. But, asks Rod Liddle, isn't 'evangelical atheism' an article of faith in itself? (The Times, London)
Practicing moral hygiene | Study links guilt and the urge for clean hands. (Now, pass the towelettes, please.) (The Washington Post)
'Renewalist' impact grows | Pentecostals and charismatics, one-quarter of the world's Christians, will shape politics and culture (The Christian Science Monitor)
Shortcuts: How to achieve inner peace | We all crave inner peace but the path -- cruelly -- is never easy. As Homer Simpson so succinctly put it: "This inner peace stuff is a tough on the ol' coconut." (CNN)
The last word on the last breath | Who decides whether to resuscitate a dying patient? The doctor? The family? The law is often unclear (The New York Times)
Rest: It's required | Adequate sleep is as crucial to a healthy life as diet and exercise, researchers are finding (Los Angeles Times)
Not every misfortune can be prevented | Amid all the agonizing and political post-9/11 posturing over whether we are safer than we were five years ago I found myself thinking of the fifth-century monk, Pelagius, and the heresy that bears his name (H.D.S. Greenway, The Boston Globe)
Getting religion | Naomi Harris Rosenblatt reviews The Faith Club (The Washington Post)
Temptation, the priest, the youth and his mother | Edmund De Santis has written a clever comic drama with satisfyingly acidic attitude, considerable passion and a killer ending (The New York Times)
Religion news in brief | Leaders of America's Orthodox Christian churches meet, and other stories (Associated Press)
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