Ugh. Wouldn’t you know it? This is what it takes for Orthodox to show up in the news (via Drudge Report):
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Priests brawl at Bethlehem birthplace of Jesus
Seven people were injured on Thursday when Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests came to blows in a dispute over how to clean the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
Following […]

Well, that’s what I get for being too busy to be out in the blogosphere. There are interesting tidbits everywhere. Some quick points you might find worth a mouse-click:

Stem cells don’t have to come from embryos — Thanks be to God! It may be that a scientific breakthrough will make the bitter debate over the […]

Isn’t the first rule of labor leveraging that if going out on strike would only make people notice how little they need you, you don’t want to go out on strike? I’m wondering if anyone told the television writers that.

The writers’ strike has been going on for a week now. No, make that a couple […]

Want to feel good about where the world is headed for once? Greg sent me this link — a 20-minute talk from Hans Rosling, a very entertaining researcher whose data analysis is a little surprising. And the ending of the talk is very unexpected.

It’s now illegal to reincarnate in Tibet without Chinese authorization (Link HERE). I think that’s about as tightly-wound as any government ever needs to get.
China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next […]

This item came from Wall St. Journal’s “Best of the Web” feature - HERE. It’s short and to the point, and it needs no comment from me, so what’s not to love?
The ‘Crime’ of Being Christian
“Saudi officials have arrested a man in Mecca for being a Christian, saying that the city, which Muslims […]

All right, I don’t have an appropriate category heading, but this is just neat-o. Greg sent me this Slash-dot article:
Musicians recently unlocked a 600 year old mystery that had been encoded into the walls of the Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, the one featured in “The Da Vinci Code.” The song was carved into the walls […]

The spring air was delicious when I left the grocery store yesterday, and I couldn’t resist just sitting in the car with the windows down for a minute feeling the breeze on my face. It took me a minute to focus my eyes on the large flag flapping gently on the flagpole of the restaurant […]

The current flak over a stupid comment by a stupid radio guy is just too much to be believed. I wouldn’t have thought that an idiotic sound-byte like calling members of a women’s basketball team “nappy-headed ho’s” would be worth the time it even takes to type it.
But then, it really doesn’t have much to […]

It seems strange to read that the French recently outlawed gay marriage. (Via Orthodoxy Today):
Paris, France (AHN) - In a landmark ruling, France’s highest court ruled the first marriage by a homosexual couple in the country was unlawful, thereby annulling the June, 5 2004 union between the two men. …
France’s Supreme Court, which ruled that […]