Living Waters Publications, a subsidiary of The Way of the Master ministry, is trying a new approach to combating the teaching of evolution, one that is somehow both more and less subtle than the usual polemics.

Yesterday, Dan Gilgoff reported on a new initiative to translate the Bible into the language of American political Conservatism, "free market parables" and all.

In today's Haaretz, Carlo Strenger denounces Bibi Netanyahu's regular invocations of the Holocaust in defense of unconscionable violence.

At the American Prospect, Michelle Goldberg questions the extent to which we should read into President Obama's decision to not meet with the Dalai Lama during his visit to Washington this week.

David Nirenberg, in the New Republic, offers a lengthy review of Pope Benedict XVI's recent encyclical, Caritas in Veritate.

At Holy Post, Charles Lewis looks into the the Muslim Canadian Congress's call for the Canadian government to ban the public wearing of the burka.

In the New York Times, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, the first elected president of the post-revolutionary Islamic Republic of Iran, expounds on the brand of Islam Afghanistan needs in order to move towards a future peace.

In the American Prospect, Gershom Gorenberg reviews the long history of violence surrounding Jerusalem's Temple Mount, or Noble Sanctuary, as it is known to Muslims.

The New York Times weighs in on the case of the Mojave Cross (Salazar v. Buono, 08-472), which the Supreme Court currently is considering. First constructed in 1934 as a World War I memorial, the cross is located within in the Mojave National Preserve in San Bernardino County, California. In 2001, Frank Buono, an former employee of the National Park Service, filed suit claiming that the cross violated the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. He won both in district court (2002) and appellate court (2004). Yet on Wednesday, Justice Antonin Scalia ridiculed the idea that "the only war dead that that cross honors are the Christian war dead. I think that's an outrageous conclusion." The New York Times disagrees.