Scout Jayson

I am a husband. I go to church. I also teach kids. The end.

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Poor Muslims Cite Fear of Backlash After Blasts in Historic Indian City - washingtonpost.com

Religion – Down dusty alleys in a neighborhood of Bangladeshi migrant workers, police detectives searched house to house Thursday for suspects in the coordinated bombings that tore through this historic city two days ago. Dozens of Bangladeshis were questioned. Police said that at least 30 have been taken into custody but that no arrests have been made.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 16, 2008 09:49am

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Judge won't free family of polygamist sect member

Family – A polygamist sect member who says the state has wrongly swept his three children into foster care lost an attempt Thursday to free them. Dan Jessop said he won a partial victory, though, when lawyers for Child Protective Services told a judge that CPS workers would try to place his wife, their baby and two other children together in a foster hom

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Submitted and Voted for on May 16, 2008 09:47am

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Christian couple believe court ruling goes against God's plan

Religion – Besides her faith, family is at the center of Cathi Unruh's life. That is, family as defined by their understanding of God's will: a husband, a wife and their children. The El Segundo native even home-schooled her four children to more firmly root them in the family's evangelical Christian faith.

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Muslims Campaign to Reclaim 'Jihad' from Extremists

Religion – The end to Ani Zonneveld's "jihad" on "jihad" came during an episode of "Desperate Housewives," when Lynette (Felicity Huffman) discovers she has cancer and throws a stone at a possum. "Look at yourself," replies her husband, Tom. "You've declared jihad on a possum."

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Study Explores 'Evangelical Intelligentsia'

Religion – For decades, Boston University sociologist Peter Berger says, American intellectuals have looked down on evangelicals. Educated people have the notion that evangelicals are "barefoot people of Tobacco Road who, I don't know, sleep with their sisters or something," Berger says. It's time that attitude changed, he says.

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Muslim Nation Hosts Jewish and Christian Scholars for Interfaith Dialogue

Religion – More than a dozen Jewish rabbis, including two from Israel, were in attendance this week as this conservative Muslim sheikdom opened one of the Gulf's first scholarly centers dedicated to interfaith dialogue.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 16, 2008 09:17am

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A Look at Modern-Day Israel 2

Religion – The Bible says that Jesus Christ "destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility" between Jews and Gentiles (Ephesians 2:14). Although the Middle East is rife with conflict and violence, many Jews and Arabs are converting to Christianity and striving to live in peace with one another.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 16, 2008 09:07am

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U.S. Jews' Relationship With Israel Evolves

Religion – Growing up at Congregation Olam Tikvah, Michelle Pearlstein remembers how Israel was taught at religious school: "Black and white -- you can't trust anyone, and it was a united front in support of Israel." Today, Pearlstein, 35, is the Israel specialist at the Fairfax synagogue, where she teaches what is now the mainstream approach: "

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Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 08:30pm

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Plan for Cross Shakes Columbia to Its Core Values

Religion – The founders of Columbia were convinced that religion, like everything else in the planned community, should be harmonious and inclusive. So the founders opted for interfaith centers. Now, one congregation's plan to place a 16-foot cross on a new building at the town's oldest interfaith center has stirred an anxious response.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 08:28pm

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A Higher Law for Lending

Religion – Business is up at Islamic finance firms, which don't charge interest and weren't part of the mortgage debacle.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 08:25pm

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7 Convicted in France On Terrorism Charges

Religion – A French judge on Wednesday convicted seven men on terrorism charges for recruiting young French Muslims to fight against U.S. forces in Iraq. Prosecutors alleged that the seven -- five Frenchmen, a Moroccan and an Algerian -- helped send about a dozen French fighters to training camps linked to the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 07:47pm

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Canadian polygamist sect under pressure

Religion – Fluorescent lights cast a yellow-green pall on the posted student artwork. A group of seventh-grade girls giggle and whisper as they wander back to class. But instead of a smiling portrait of an elected official, Bountiful Elementary-Secondary School displays a photograph of a smiling Warren Jeffs.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 07:43pm

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Couple who won't accept homosexuality win right to foster

Family – A couple who were rejected as foster parents after they refused to condone homosexuality have won their battle to apply to be carers. Derby city council blocked an application from Eunice and Owen Johns to provide respite care for under-10s after they admitted they could never tell a child that being homosexual was acceptable.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 07:26pm

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English-Arabic Public School Faces Harsh Critics

Religion – The Khalil Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn, New York, an English-Arabic public school, provoked controversy before it even opened. Critics described it as a madrassa headed by a radical Islamist hoping to proselytize to her students.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 07:20pm

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A Look at Modern-Day Israel 1

Religion – Many Jews and Christians say biblical prophecy was fulfilled when the nation of Israel was reborn on May 14, 1948 - some 1,900 years after the Jewish people were displaced from what the Old Testament describes as their God-given homeland. This week, Israel celebrates its 60th anniversary as a modern-day nation.

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