At the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies, Mike Treder blogs about a March 2009 talk given by Georgetown law professor Steven Goldberg about whether transhumanism—the belief that technology should be used to augment and even transform human biology in radical ways—constitutes a religion.

At his blog Windows and Doors, Rabbi Brad Hirschfield encourages Jews to attend Yom Kippur services, even if they have to do it online.

At Progressive Revival, Kate M. Ott reflects on the situation of an Ohio woman who was implanted with an embryo from another family, the ethical decision she and her family had to make, and how modern day religious organizations can engage with novel technologies.

In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Christopher Shea profiles Harvard political scientist Michael Sandel, whose seminar Moral Reasoning 22---known to initiates simply as "Justice"---forms the basis of a 12-part documentary set to air on public-television this fall.

The Guardian's Belief section has published an excerpt from a sermon by Richard Chartres at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, which reflects on why Robert May, an atheist and Britain's chief science adviser, has declared that religion may be necessary to avert the environmental crisis.

Peter Steinfels writes in the New York Times about a new chapel at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, which includes the artwork of Slovenian Jesuit Marko Ivan Rupnik. Steinfels points out that administrators have somewhat different ways of describing what role the chapel is intended to play in the spiritual culture on campus.

David B. Hart has a new essay at First Things about St. Josephat of India, revered in both Eastern and Western Christendom, whose legend has a surprising basis in fact.

In the latest "new atheist" duel, the Wall Street Journal recently featured essays about evolution and religion by Richard Dawkins and Karen Armstrong.

Parsing some numbers showing that Americans are paying more attention to the news these days than at any point in the past decade, Matt Yglesias points out the paradox of the much-touted ideal of greater civic engagement.