{"id":755,"date":"2011-05-31T00:43:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T04:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/?p=755"},"modified":"2011-05-31T01:32:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T05:32:50","slug":"may-flashback-san-francisco-to-vote-on-circumcision-bishop-eddie-long-settles-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/05\/may-flashback-san-francisco-to-vote-on-circumcision-bishop-eddie-long-settles-more.html","title":{"rendered":"May Flashback: San Francisco to Vote on Circumcision, Bishop Eddie Long Settles &amp; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day weekend &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/obama-issues-2011-memorial-day.html\" target=\"_blank\">prayers<\/a> and picnics alike.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my top five list interesting faith-related news from the past few weeks worth keeping an eye on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/news\/article\/2011\/05\/30\/3087910\/anti-circumcision-movement-gathers-steam-in-california#When:20:15:00Z\" target=\"_blank\">Battle over circumcision is shaping up in California <\/a>(JTA)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/headlines\/bishop-eddie-long-settles-with-accusers-of-sexual-misconduct\/8916\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bishop Eddie Long settles with accusers of sexual misconduct <\/a>(Religion &amp; Ethics Newsweekly)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110528\/ap_on_re_us\/us_crystal_cathedral_bankruptcy\">Crystal Cathedral to file bankruptcy exit plan<\/a> (AP)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/05\/29\/17452\/\">Faith comes to the forefront on Sunday in Joplin<\/a> (CNN Belief Blog)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/22\/opinion\/22lindh.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">Bin Laden&#8217;s gone. Can my son come home? <\/a>(NYT op-ed by John Walker Lindh&#8217;s father)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click  here to\u00a0<strong>subscribe to Belief Beat <\/strong><\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to <\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">follow Belief Beat on  Twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day weekend &#8212; prayers and picnics alike. Here&#8217;s my top five list interesting faith-related news from the past few weeks worth keeping an eye on: Battle over circumcision is shaping up in California (JTA) Bishop Eddie Long settles with accusers of sexual misconduct (Religion &amp; Ethics Newsweekly) Crystal Cathedral&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":[244,14,247,245,13,11,26,246,248,28,243,7,134,249],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bishop-eddie-long","tag-christianity","tag-circumcision","tag-crystal-cathedral","tag-evangelical-christians","tag-islam","tag-jews","tag-john-walker-lindh","tag-joplin-tornado","tag-judaism","tag-memorial-day-2011","tag-muslims","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-prayers-for-joplin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>May Flashback: San Francisco to Vote on Circumcision, Bishop Eddie Long Settles &amp; More - 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\/05\/may-flashback-san-francisco-to-vote-on-circumcision-bishop-eddie-long-settles-more.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"May Flashback: San Francisco to Vote on Circumcision, Bishop Eddie Long Settles &amp; More - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day weekend &#8212; prayers and picnics alike. 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