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Stories about Passover and Easter:
Don't pass over this delectable soup
Passover starts on April 8 and the traditional Passover Seder usually begins with chicken soup. For the best flavour, I always make my soup with homemade chicken stock, which is very handy to have in the freezer and is inexpensive to make in large quantities. It's a great base for many sauces and soups, including the Asian noodle and Thai shrimp soups also included here.
Globe and Mail, April 4
Finding religion a little later in life than most
Converts to Christianity will be welcomed at Easter
Vancouver Sun, April 8
Conscience and the Mass
For believing Christians, the Mass is nothing less than the story of salvation and redemption, incarnation and resurrection, made liturgically present for us now. There simply is no greater material, no greater story, to inspire the composer. For many composers, a Mass setting is itself an audacious venture, a way of touching the divine not dissimilar to an act of worship. Soli Deo gloria -- to God alone be the glory -- is how Bach would annotate his scores.
Father Raymond J. De Souza, National Post, April 9
Stories about Barack Obama and ethical controversies:
The next moral quagmire: conscience
Dr. David Stevens worries Barack Obama is about to end his medical career. As a family practitioner and a devout Christian, the Tennessee doctor has been able to cite an existing conscience protection for health workers to avoid doing anything that clashes with his beliefs. But with Mr. Obama looking at rolling back these conscience protections, Dr. Stevens says he isn't sure if he would go on practising medicine.
National Post, April 4
Invitation to Obama riles Catholics
The University of Notre Dame's invitation to Barack Obama to give the school's commencement address in May has created a storm of protest from high-profile Roman Catholics who say the President is showing complete disregard of the Church's social teachings and the voters who helped put him in office.
National Post, April 6
Earlier: Obama visit gets mixed reviews from Christians
Stories about teenagers, atheism and virtues:
Teenage atheism on the rise
According to a new survey, teens who said they definitely believed in God, or a higher power, went from 54% to 37%, between 1984 and 2008, while the number of atheists rose from 6% to 16%. The number of teens who remained uncertain about God remained at 31%.
National Post, April 7
Teens are more virtuous, positive, new survey finds
In his forthcoming book based on the survey, called The Emerging Millennials, University of Lethbridge sociologist Reginald Bibby notes that today's teens expect a very bright future -- 95 per cent say they will get to where they want to be in life. They expect things will just keep on getting better, said Bibby, who has tracked adolescent trends since 1984.
Ottawa Citizen, April 7
Stories about the evolution debate:
'Scientism' infects Darwinian debates
An unflinching belief that science can explain everything about evolution becomes its own ideology
Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun, April 4
I'm a believer
Goodyear is the minister of state for science and technology. He's also a chiropractor, so he's practically a scientist himself. But that wasn't good enough for the reporter who asked him if he accepted that evolution is true. Imagine asking the minister responsible for science if he accepts basic science. It was clearly an attack on religious belief. Pure bigotry.
Dan Gardner, Ottawa Citizen, April 7
Scientists and philosophers both enrich evolutionary thought
It has been fascinating to engage in a sometimes heated dialogue through the newspaper with scientists and others over evolution.
Douglas Todd, The Search, Vancouver Sun, April 8
Earlier: Stories about science minister Gary Goodyear and evolution
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Stories about the polygamy debate:
A marriage of fear and xenophobia
Our criminalization of polygamy isn't about protecting women
Susan Drummond, Globe and Mail, April 6
It's inevitable: The courts will legalize polygamy
When same-sex marriage was legalized in 2005, I argued that polygamy would follow. This is now happening.
David Warren, Ottawa Citizen, April 7
It's time for conservatives to stop blaming gay marriage for things they don't like
"Polygamy is not going to win," I replied. "And if it does, it won't be because of gay marriage."
Jonathan Kay, Full Comment, National Post, April 7
We're in the fast lane to polygamy
What's my line on legalized polygamy? Oh, I pretty much said it all back in 2004, in a column for Ezra Levant's Western Standard. Headline: "It's Closer Than They Think."
Mark Steyn, Maclean's, April 9
Earlier: Stories about Bountiful and the polygamy trial
Stories about Islam and the West:
2nd chance for polygamist
A Pakistani man whose Muslim religion allows him to have up to four wives has been given a second immigration hearing that will decide if can resettle in Canada if he only brings one spouse.
Toronto Sun, March 31
Critic of Islamist world treated different than Galloway
Brigitte Gabriel's hands tell the story of her successful escape from war-ravaged Lebanon, where she was born to rich parents, grew up as a persecuted Christian, and lived seven years in a bomb shelter, eating dandelions and bug-infested chick peas, before escaping to Israel.
National Post, April 5
Hysteria over sharia law misses more pressing issues
Most Afghan women fear leaving home for school or work because they don't feel safe
Nelofer Pazira, Toronto Star, April 8
Earlier: Stories about Islam and the West
Other stories from the past week:
'Pipeline for God'
Ed Hughes stayed with the orphans he cared for in Haiti even after bandits shot him and he lost his right arm. He remained even after armed men took him hostage for a week, until his son paid a US$2,000 ransom. In the end, the Canadian missionary, who was in his mid-seventies, died caring for the orphans. On March 21, he climbed a ladder one-handed to fix a water pipe on his roof. He fell and cracked his head on the concrete below.
National Post, April 3
Earlier: Canadian missionary released by Haitian kidnappers
North Dakota to vote on declaring fetus a person
North Dakota, with its deeply rooted conservative politics and piety, may soon pass the most radical anti-abortion legislation in the United States.
National Post, April 3
Are you down for Twitter?
Excuse me, but I am trying to be hip by using the term "down" instead of "up." I am also trying to be cool by signing on to Twitter, the online social network.
Douglas Todd, The Search, Vancouver Sun, April 3
Tending to hearts and minds
Sometimes, Lieutenant-Commander Peter Collins has to be what he calls a "chaplain wrangler," at the acute-care hospital the Canadian Forces run for NATO in southern Afghanistan. When alliance soldiers suffer mass casualties, Lt.-Cmdr. Collins helps direct which padres go to offer spiritual help and where it is they go. The 56-year-old reservist is also this huge base's unofficial rabbi, gathering Jewish soldiers serving with many different armies for religious events in conditions far different from their home countries.
CanWest News Service, April 5
Toronto school club 'demonizes' Jews: trustee
An alternative high school has landed in hot water with the Toronto District School Board for an approach to teaching about the Middle East that one trustee said "demonizes Jews," and for connecting students to a controversial activist program that has sparked protests at universities. The controversy stems from a group called High Schools Against Israeli Apartheid, founded by students at the Student School, an alternative high school that emphasizes social justice and even allows its student council to make policy decisions.
National Post, April 6
Earlier: Stories about anti-Semitism
Who is "Marylou" and why is she so angry at secular people?
A tough-talking conservative Christian has earned the anger and admiration of many on this blog as she lambastes people who defend Charles Darwin and criticize Stephen Harper.
Douglas Todd, The Search, Vancouver Sun, April 6
Canadian Jewish Congress in Quebec changes name to Quebec Jewish Congress
A decision by the Quebec wing of the Canadian Jewish Congress to change its name to the Quebec Jewish Congress reflects a normal evolution of the organization and shouldn't worry anybody, the group's new president-elect said Tuesday. But Adam Atlas acknowledges not everyone is happy with the name change.
Canadian Press, April 7
Why the so-cons matter
Social conservatives are those that make the conservative movement a little bit more human and therefore more acceptable to our society -- and for those in politics that spells votes.
David Quist, National Post, April 8
Dead Sea Scrolls stir storm at ROM
A planned Toronto exhibit of ancient Middle Eastern manuscripts is threatening to plunge Canada, along with the Royal Ontario Museum, into the thick of the long-running conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
Toronto Star, April 9
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