“Ground Zero is a graveyard,” writes Rabbi David Wolpe in the Washington Post‘s On Faith section. “Yes, it is a national site and a place of competing interests, and a reminder of a peril facing our country and the world. But it is also a place where many people died and left no remains to…

In response to a voter’s question about whom he admires, former Minnesota governor and GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty said that Jesus is one of his “political heroes.” The Washington Post‘s “On Faith” writer Elizabeth Tenety cited Jon Ward’s report of the campaign event: Pawlenty first talked about his father — “a big guy, a Polish guy,…

“The idea human-animal chimeras may conjure images from science fiction,” writes Los Angeles Times blogger Chris Woolston. “To many, human-animal chimeras —  animals that contain human cells — sound like the stuff of nightmares. If you can picture a frog with a human head, a monkey with human vocal chords or a dog with opposable thumbs,…

Youth ministry leader and author Dave Fenton says youth in Britain are not being reached by trendy youth ministers chosen according to age rather than ability to touch kids’ lives. “Why do we say youth leaders have to be cool, to dress in a certain way? And why are we so reluctant to teach [youth] the Bible?” Fenton…

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