Of Note

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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