Link Roundup for April 5-11 2010

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  • Canada.com reports on Elton John’s recent controversial concert at the Mayan pyramids.
  • Canada.com also reports on children being happier for having a highly sophisticated spiritual sense.
  • The Guardian has an interesting op-ed piece about New Atheism by Madeline Bunting.
  • NPR has a story about defection from the Catholic church, but maintenance of Catholic identity in its wake.
  • The Independent has a review of a recent book about Mahatma Gandhi’s peculiar relationship with “sex.”

  • New York Times has an op-ed from Maureen Dowd about necessary changes for the Roman Catholic church.
  • The Guardian has a review article about pilgrimages to Lourdes.
  • CBC News reports on a recent attack involving a kirpan in Brampton, Ontario.
  • Newsweek comments on the consequences of an “insular” all-male hierarchy in the Catholic church and suggests a solution.
  • CBC news reports that Toronto police are reviewing their policies when dealing with people of specific faiths, beginning with an incident where a police removed a Muslim woman’s hijab in public.
  • Delaware Online has a piece about the importance of Evangelicals to public opinion about climate change.
  • Christian Science Monitor reports on the rise of Calvinism that emphasizes doctrines, as opposed to “theology light” forms of evangelicalism.
  • CNN has a piece about the similarities between the rhetorical framing of soldiers of the Confederate States of America and modern-day Muslim extremists.