Monday's News & Ideas
Explaining the inexplicable: murder at Mazar
Foreign Policy: How could the actions of a largely reviled, fringe lunatic in central Florida result in protests in Afghanistan and Pakistan and spawn the deaths of so many people?
The New York Times: Religion does its worst
CNN Belief blog: Quran much more than a holy book to Muslims
Digital disciple I: Virtual people
Episcopal Café: We call it an Internet "connection," but we could just as easily call it an Internet "isolation," says Adam Thomas in first of three excerpts from "Digital Disciple."
USA Today: Chinese Grandmas get the iPad 2 in heaven, sort of
Did a chaplain's fake Purple Heart erase good deeds?
Christian Science Monitor: National Guard Capt. Kurt Bishop was a respected chaplain. But store-bought military decorations -- including a Purple Heart -- ruined his career.
Army atheists seek 'faith' privileges
Associated Press: Atheists, agnostics, humanists and other skeptics from the Army's Fort Bragg have formed an organization for nonbelievers in the overwhelmingly Christian U.S. military.
Strong support among Christians for euthanasia
The (Adelaide, Australia) Advertiser: Survey shows many Australians are interested in having choice at the end of their life, with 65 percent of Christians supporting voluntary euthanasia.
Seminary professors' tenure eyed by Kentucky appeals court
Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal: Kentucky Court of Appeals agrees to consider whether tenure status offers legal protection for professors at seminaries.
The Spark
Remembering Martin Luther King as a man, not a saint
Forty-three years ago today Martin Luther King Jr. was slain on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Within hours, as the nation erupted in flames, lawmakers began to propose a national holiday in his name. Today, King is enshrined in the pantheon of our greatest heroes -- an icon, a saint, untouchable. As we mark the anniversary of his death, we need to stay mindful of King's flesh-and-blood humanity, author Hampton Sides writes in the Washington Post. "By draping him in a halo glow, we do him little honor."
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