By: Adelle M. Banks Posted: Thursday, August 27, 2009 5:53 am Section: Religion News Service   WASHINGTON (RNS) When the space shuttle Discovery next takes flight, perhaps later this week, it will carry a piece of missionary history with it… Continue reading

Latest 10 Religion News Headlines from Pew Forum.Org Pew does a great job of creating these links and short summaries of each of the stories. August 27, 2009 – The Wall Street Journal Taliban Punish Voters in Wake of Afghan… Continue reading

"Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers."  – attributed to Augustus Hare and to Lord Byron There is a slow rise and a rapid rise. To these… Continue reading

By Joshua Melvin, Neil Gonzales and Sandra Gonzales For months, police say, the 17-year-old former Hillsdale High student planned the chilling attack that erupted Monday at the school with two explosions. His motive? Revenge. His target? School staff. via www.mercurynews.com… Continue reading

Rod Dreher/Columnist I spent two months this summer as a Templeton Foundation journalism fellow in science and religion, attending Cambridge University seminars on various aspects of the dialogue, historical and contemporary, between science and religion. It was surprising for me… Continue reading

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing." – Benjamin Franklin I would not mind doing both. However, it is always for someone else to evaluate… Continue reading

In recent months, Wauwatosa has seen cemetery headstones, city stop signs and the Hoyt Park pool house damaged. But this time, vandals have struck a new target: The statue at the entrance to St. Joseph Congregation now features a headless… Continue reading

Pope freed from cast, says wrist still 'lazy' AP – Sun Aug 23, 1:25 pm ET   AP CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – Pope Benedict XVI made his first public appearance since having the cast removed from his broken right wrist, joking Sunday that his… Continue reading

OK, not George Carlin's famed "Seven Dirty Words You Can't Say on Television," but this'll still be fun. In the F&R Forum, minusRusty links to HealthNewsReview.org publisher Gary Schwitzer's Seven Words You Shouldn't Use in Medical Journalism (i.e. "miracle"). Rusty… Continue reading