{"id":354,"date":"2011-02-01T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/02\/january-recap-circumcision-faith-dna-elvis-nun.html"},"modified":"2011-02-01T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T13:20:00","slug":"january-recap-circumcision-faith-dna-elvis-nun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/02\/january-recap-circumcision-faith-dna-elvis-nun.html","title":{"rendered":"January Flashback: Memorial Circumcision, Religious DNA, Spiritual Fitness &amp; Elvis-Kissing Nun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated to add link to Entertainment Weekly&nbsp;story about Mother Dolores Hart.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Belief Beat usually covers hard news or stories that make multiple headlines, but now that it&#8217;s February, let&#8217;s look back at a few interesting January&nbsp;features you may have missed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Check out&nbsp;this<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/25\/health\/views\/25cases.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\"> New York Times column about a mohel&#8217;s experience circumcising an infant <\/a>that had died. (I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/08\/22\/AR2008082202673.html\">written about circumcision trends&nbsp;before<\/a>,&nbsp;but this is the first I&#8217;ve&nbsp;heard of this concept, and I found it quite touching.)<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.orlandosentinel.com\/features-the-religion-world\/2011\/01\/18\/researcher-discovers-religion-gene\/\">Orlando&nbsp;Sentinel&#8217;s Religion World blog&nbsp;reported<\/a> that&nbsp;Robert Rowthorn, a Cambridge University economics professor,&nbsp;thinks there&#8217;s a &#8220;religion gene&#8221; that makes people more likely to be devout. His study is called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/21227968\">Religion, fertility and genes: a dual inheritance model<\/a>.&#8221; Nature vs. Nurture, Round 4,815,162,342?<\/li>\n<li>Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/01\/13\/132904866\/armys-spiritual-fitness-test-angers-some-soldiers\">NPR report on the U.S. Army&#8217;s &#8220;spiritual fitness&#8221; test,&nbsp;<\/a>also covered by USA <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/Religion\/post\/2011\/01\/fitness-us-army-spirituality-religion-\/1?csp=34&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Religion-TopStories+(News+-+Religion+-+Top+Stories)\">Today&#8217;s Faith &amp; Reason blog<\/a>, which has upset some atheists, non-Christians and religious freedom advocates, including&nbsp;the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/08\/military-religious-freedom-watchdog-investigating-christian-concert-coercion.html\">Military Religious Freedom Foundation&#8217;s Mikey Weinstein<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also,<strike> I can&#8217;t find a copy of the article online anywhere &#8212; perhaps it&#8217;ll be posted once the issue<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"Dolores-Hart27270.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/70\/import\/Dolores-Hart27270.jpg\" width=\"297\" height=\"236\" \/><\/span>is no longer on newsstands &#8212; but&nbsp;<\/strike>turn to page 84 of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/ew\/article\/0,,20311937_20465690,00.html\"><em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em>&#8216;s Oscar issue&nbsp;for a great profile of&nbsp;&#8220;The Nun Who Kissed Elvis.&#8221; <\/a>It&#8217;s about Mother Dolores Hart, an Academy Awards voter who left&nbsp;Hollywood&nbsp;for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abbeyofreginalaudis.com\/\">Abbey of Regina Laudis <\/a>(my old neighbor) in Bethlehem, Conn. nearly 50 years ago. FYI, those Benedictine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saradavidson.com\/articleA2.html\">ladies are quite a talented bunch <\/a>&#8212; in addition to Hart the Oscar-voting nun, there&#8217;s also debutante banker-turned-beekeeper&nbsp;Mother Deborah Joseph and Mother Noella Marcellino, the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/01\/23\/style\/23iht-blume_ed3__0.html\">cheese nun<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter.<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated to add link to Entertainment Weekly&nbsp;story about Mother Dolores Hart. Belief Beat usually covers hard news or stories that make multiple headlines, but now that it&#8217;s February, let&#8217;s look back at a few interesting January&nbsp;features you may have missed: Check out&nbsp;this New York Times column about a mohel&#8217;s experience circumcising an infant that had&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>January Flashback: Memorial Circumcision, Religious DNA, Spiritual Fitness &amp; Elvis-Kissing Nun - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/02\/january-recap-circumcision-faith-dna-elvis-nun.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"January Flashback: Memorial Circumcision, Religious DNA, Spiritual Fitness &amp; Elvis-Kissing Nun - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Updated to add link to Entertainment Weekly&nbsp;story about Mother Dolores Hart. 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