Articles from this weekend (just a portion, hardly exhaustive) that may interest anyone interested in religion, culture, and public life:
Catholic vote and Hilary Clinton ( NY Times )
Rabbis criticizing the revised Good Friday praye r ( NY Times )
James Dobson and John McCain ( Wall Street Journal )
FT-contributer Ross Douthat on the future of the GOP ( NY Times )
The gap between rich and poor—-for consumption ( NY Times )
The Science of Fetal Pain ( NY Times Magazine )
Review of Embryo: A Defense of Human Life ( NY Times Book Review )
Review of two books about the Religious Left ( NY Times Book Review )
Two reviews ( here and here ) about three books on the future of the GOP ( NY Times Book Review )
“Child-Men,” “emerging adulthood,” “extended adolescence,” “Odyssey Years,” “decade of wandering” ( City Journal )
More on Rowan Williams and Sharia Law ( NY Post )
4 Inconvenient truths for party loyalists ( Weekly Standard )
Religion and Violence (Roger Sandall)
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