Social cohesion – excluding Muslims
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/31/religion.race
Inayat Bunglawala, Guardian CiF
Several UK newspapers on Sunday and Monday published alarmist stories based
upon a new report entitled Islam on Campus by the Centre for Social Cohesion
and a YouGov poll also commissioned by the CfSC. The website of the CfSC
explains its purpose as trying to generate: "new thinking that can help
bring Britain's ethnic and religious communities closer together while
strengthening British traditions of openness, tolerance and democracy."

Religion and the ethics of science
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/aug/01/religion
Letters, Guardian
Christian opinion on the moral status of the embryo is not all as
restrictive as Jim Al-Khalili implies (While our scientists struggle with
ethics, the Islamic world forges ahead, July 31). The majority in the Church
of England's general synod take a gradualist view and our submission to the
human fertilisation and embryo consultation drew on this to argue that, up
to the 14-day point of implantation which Al-Khalili describes, some embryo
research is ethically acceptable.

Only broadband will do for monks with an internet habit
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/only-broadband-will...
-monks-with-an-internet-habit-882621.html
Chris Green, Independent
Choose to be a monk and you accept that your life will be a spartan
existence dominated by prayer, chastity and reflective solitude, far from
the hustle and bustle of the modern world. But such a traditional perception
of monastic life is being challenged by a community of Catholic monks who
live in a century-old abbey on Caldey Island, off Pembrokeshire in
south-west Wales. Sick of being hindered by the limitations of their ancient
dial-up internet connection...

Lost property, naked bishops, and the mark of the beast (Riazat Butt, The
Guardian)
Condemn homosexuality, Vatican official tells Lambeth conference (Riazat
Butt, The Guardian)
Lambeth Diary: 'When did you last beat your wife, Bishop?' (Ruth Gledhill)
Israeli war crimes and traffic offences (Jews sans frontieres)
Finland: Considering legalizing male circumcision (Islam in Europe)
Who are the real "New Jews"? (Indigo Jo Blogs)
Anthony Glees and Centre For Social Cohesion at it again (MPACUK)
The Episcopalian superiority complex (R Butt, Guardian CiF)