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• Politics, Bible stories, and hope | An interview with Children of Men director Alfonso Cuarón (The Stranger, Seattle)
  
  
• Truth, justice, abortion, and the Times Magazine | The accuracy and fairness of a cover story on abortion in El Salvador were not pursued with the vigor Times readers have a right to expect (Byron Calame, The New York Times)
  
  

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Sports:

• Ex-NFL star now hauls in lost souls | The stadiums where he once spent his Sundays were still filling with fans as kickoff neared all over the N.F.L., but the Rev. Irving Fryar had already broken a sweat at the pulpit of his new church (The New York Times)
  
  
• God is my quarterback | NFL chaplains battle player self-doubt (Bloomberg)
  
  

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Other stories of interest:

• Templeton Foundation fights ID tag | "The phrase 'science and religion' has been hijacked by the Intelligent Design people," says Pamela Thompson, Templeton's vice president for communications, explaining the foundation's new motto (The Christian Century)
  
  
• Priest's death shows Russia's rural rot | The 31-year old priest and his family were seen as a beacon of hope in the grim reality of joblessness, decay and alcoholism that characterizes rural Russia (Reuters)
  
  
• A church looks back at the Sago Mine disaster | A community comes together to help the miners' families (The State Journal, Charleston, W.V.)
  
  
• Nepal's goddesses: religious abuse? | Nepal's Supreme Court will rule on whether a tradition of using children as living goddesses is a crime (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Decades later, some Lebanese can't go home | Shiites' return after '06 war reminds Christians that they're still waiting (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Somalia's new conflict, rooted in old ties | It appears that Ethiopia, long ruled by Christians, does not want to see Somalia ruled by radical Islamists, and is therefore hard at work putting Somalia's warlords back in power (H.D.S. Greenway, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Calming our fears | The multiculturalism debate needs to take place in a climate of serenity, away from the current anxieties and raised hackles (Tariq Ramadan, The Guardian, London)
  
  

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