First Links – 7.14.11

Judge: Catholic Charities can keep serving foster kids, for now , Chicago Tribune (Ray Long & Manya A. Brachear)

Atheists: Texas prayer day harmful , Associated Press

Final gasp of the ‘Harry Potter’ wars? , The Republi c (Terry Mattingly)

TOMS Shoes and Focus on the Family: A Puzzling PR Disaster , Evangelical Outpost (Rachel Motte)

Panel Says Judges Have Been too Hard on U.K. Christians , Religion News Service (Al Webb)

Are you now or have you ever been a Lutheran? , Get Religion (M.Z. Hemingway)

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