- Quebec is becoming a leading producer of green (as in ecologically sound) communion wine.
- Want to be a rock star? Go to Christian rock camp.
- A California college offers a major in secularism.
- A Jewish newspaper apologises for removing Hilary Clinton from a photograph.
- Mitt Romney must be serious about his presidential big - he's now courting religious conservatives.
- One of the Sudanese 'lost boys' is heading back home after having completed seminary in the US.
- A progressive Christian group rejects a gay rights ad that uses the church setting.
- In case you missed the news, the world will end on 21 May.
- Is Vladimir Putin the new Paul?
- Al Jazeera looks at how the government of Bahrain has persecuted its Shi'a minority.
- According to a new book, half of the New Testament is forged.
- A new cross-cultural study in evolutionary biology suggests that religion is part of human nature.
- A piece looks at the portrayal of Norse mythology in the new movie 'Thor'.
- A new bill in the US proposes that the State department make international freedom of religion rights a priority.
- A group of Turkish creationists are touring France to denounce Darwin.
- In a new interview published Monday, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking calls the notion of an afterlife 'a fairy-tale for those afraid of the dark'.
- A proposed ban on circumcision in San Francisco will be voted on by city council in November.
The blog of the RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE initiative
at the University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Religion
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Link roundup: 10 May - 19 May
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