Emory University's Center for the Study of Law and Religion (CSLR) has posted lectures dating back to 2003 in categories such as religion and family, religion and human rights, separation of church and state, and law and religion issues for the future, says their website.

Jessie Daniels at contech (one of Contexts Magazine's blogs) discusses the spread of "digital scholarship" and what its rising prominence might mean for current systems of granting tenure. Specifically, to what extent are tenure decisions based on a scholar's "impact" on their field, and how might this be measured in digital terms?

Tom Riner, a Democratic representative of 26 years in the Kentucky legislature, has repeatedly tried to inject religion into Kentucky laws, the New York Times reports.

At Religion Dispatches, Michelle Goldberg contends that homosexuals have replaced Jews as the stock figure to be hated by fundamentalists of all stripes.

The Church of England may vote to create a new clergy position , Riazat Butt reports in the Guardian.

There has been a recent surge in Islamic creationism, as we have previously mentioned. Salman Hameed responds to this phenomenon in the Guardian:

Religion, especially Islam, has spread into what were previously secular areas of Bosnian society, Dan Bilefsky reports in the New York Times.

Laurie Goodstein and Elisabetta Povoledo write in the New York Times about the 32 page document recently issued by the Vatican dealing with many issues of biomedical technology, which establishes (or, in some cases, reinforces) the Roman Catholic position on these issues.

The BBC recently aired the first episode of a documentary entitled Islam and Science, which looks at the scientific advances that took place that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries.