Religious writing in the news

• Religious law plays central role in new firm - Theresa Sidebotham is the daughter of Christian missionary parents and the wife of the founder of a Monument-based Christian ministry to military personnel. So it's perhaps no surprise that she has focused her new law practice in part on providing legal services to churches and Christian...
• Students have religious freedoms in public schools - The common perception of God being taken out of public schools is inaccurate, said Pat Henderson, superintendent of the Lubbock-Cooper Independent School District. Students still pray in public schools.
• Tehran Book Fair versus the literature of Iran's streets - The Tehran Book Fair kicks off today, highlighting pressures between sanctioned and censored books in Iran.
• Dysart Unified School District reverses ban on religious fliers - Decision in response to a federal lawsuit filed by an organization of Christian attorneys.
• Harmony House celebrates 30 years - Timmins Mayor Tom Laughren was on hand to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Harmony House bookstore in the Porcupine Mall. Opened in 1982, the store has been providing religious literature to the Timmins community thanks to the continued and generous support of customers.[...]
• Treasures of Italy's Marche region on show at Vatican - VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - If you wanted to admire masterpieces of religious art by Titian, Raphael, Lorenzo Lotto, Guido Reni, Carlo Crivelli and other masters in museums around Italy's central Marche region, it could cost you a few weeks of time and a hefty hotel bill. Now, 50 paintings from 15 museums in the region rich in natural beauty and artistic heritage are on exhibition at the Vatican ...
• LITERATURE: By any definition, it enriches our life - ROBERT Frost defined literature "as a performance in words". It has in it an element of entertaining display. Literature can also be said as the "expression of society". Societies throughout history express themselves in many ways, through poems and other writings.
• David Sloan Wilson: The New Atheism and Evolutionary Religious Studies: Clarifying Their Relationship - What is the relationship between the New Atheism and Evolutionary Religious Studies? This question is surprisingly complex and needs to be answered in at least three steps.
• Catholic bishops scrutinizing Girl Scouts' literature, launch official inquiry - NEW YORK (AP) — Long a lightning rod for conservative criticism, the Girl Scouts of the USA are now facing their highest-level challenge yet: An official inquiry by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
• Temple holds O.C.’s first religious text burial - NEWPORT BEACH - Worn and outdated Jewish books, frayed tallit and other religious texts containing the word "God" found a proper burial at Temple Bat Yahm's genizah ritual Sunday - the first such ritual to dispose of unusable religious texts in Orange County. Temple congregants say...