Weblog: Finding and Missing Jesus at Ford's Funeral
Plus: Richard Land, Leith Anderson, and others on Hussein's execution; Elizabeth Fox-Genovese dies; mysterious charges against an evangelical Episcopalian leader; and other stories from online sources around the world.
Also: Remembering Elizabeth Fox-Genovese | She was a well-regarded scholar and a successful author, at home in both the academic world and the public sphere. But she was something more, as well, for she had a kind of solid common sense about ideas and where they lead (Joseph Bottum, First Things)
A tribute to Harald Bredesen | Bredesen was a Lutheran pastor who was greatly credited with inspiring and influencing the charismatic movement (CBN)
Rites and wrongs | The Ford funeral and Justice Stevens (Edward Whelan, National Review Online)
Religious-freedom group shifts emphasis | But Council for America's First Freedom still plans a museum in Richmond at 14th Street site (Richmond Times Dispatch, Va.)
Interview: Zev Chafets | Why do evangelicals support Israel so strongly? Is the American Jews' fear of fundamentalist Christianity based on constitutional principle, or social and cultural snobbery and political partisanship? (Haaretz, Tel Aviv)
Patience is a virtue when seeking the big religion story | Events on this beat often seem to go in circles, with certain themes and conflicts appearing year after year, says Richard N. Ostling, who retired last year after three decades as a religion reporter (Terry Mattingly, Scripps Howard News Service)
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