RELIGION:       That Men and Women Question Again
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LONDON, Aug 21 (IPS) - A new missive on women from the Vatican followed   by a strong response to it has brought new spark to an old  debate.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A team of British-based researchers will spend the next three years probing why people believe in religion.
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I've heard thousands of sermons over the years, and a ton of them were about sex and money (or substitute: lust and greed). It's as if the two issues are synonymous, and in a way, they are.
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As the year ends, there are still some perplexing questions that need to be asked.
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ROME, Sep 11 (IPS) - Migrants most often carry their religion with them,  and this often leads to clashes with people in their host  country, Peter Schatzer, Director Mediterranean Regional Office  and Head of Mission in Italy for the International Organisation  for Migration (IOM), tells IPS correspondent Sabina Zaccaro. And  that makes religion a particular issue for about 95 million  migrants around the world.
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I return at last to the creationism-intelligent design debate. After all my rather coy gambits on this topic over recent months, the conclusion may come as something of an anticlimax. It really is for me too: I'm tired of wrestling with it.
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Despite the availability of accurate sexual heath information, educated people still don't know the basic facts of life. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
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From the New York Times:          Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of  knowledge about the world because it is based on testable  hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term  "doubting Thomas" well illustrates the difference. In science, a  healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion,  having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.              The problem with this neat separation into "non-overlapping  magisteria," as Stephen Jay Gould described science and religion, is  that science has its own faith-based belief system. All science  proceeds on the assumption that nature is ordered in a rational and  intelligible way. You couldn't be a scientist if you thought the  universe was a meaningless jumble of odds and ends haphazardly  juxtaposed. When physicists probe to a deeper level of subatomic  structure, or astronomers extend the reach of their instruments, they  expect to encounter additional elegant mathematical order. And so far  this faith has been justified.            Thus begins an exploration into the controversy around the origins of  our universe's most fundamental laws.
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It&#39;s a conflict between personal faith and modern-day, big-money sports, a matter of private belief open to public scrutiny. And it poses a question: Where does an athlete&#39;s allegiance lie when religion collides with sport?
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For all the differences between the sexes, here's one that might stir up debate in the teacher's lounge: Boys learn more from men and girls learn more from women.
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The issue of women bishops being allowed in the Church of England has been debated by the general synod.
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A new study challenges the conventional wisdom that women talk more than men do.
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Lately it seems all the leading presidential candidates are discussing their religious and moral beliefs &#151; even when they'd rather not. Indeed, seven years after George W. Bush won the presidency in part with a direct appeal to conservative religious voters &#151; even saying during a debate that Jesus Christ was his favorite philosopher &#151; the personal faith of candidates has become a very public part of the presidential campaign.
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Comment is free: Madeleine Bunting: Gordon Brown is one of many using religious shorthand to show moral purpose. Can he square it with his faith in markets?.
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Â·  Survey calls for churches to work with policeÂ·   Clergy can be 'honest brokers' for young people
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Founded in the mid-19th century, the Young Men's Christian Association has expanded far beyond its name in the United States. It welcomes all faiths, half the 20.2 million people it serves are female, and more than half are adults.
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Scott Hall wants to spark a discussion, so he asks his students something bound to provoke a reaction: Do women want more out of marriage than men?