Blogwatch: Foster care, shunning, Chinese law, and more
Conference on (African-American) Fathers and the Foster Care System.
Reading journal for A Complicated Kindness: on shunning among Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Mother Laura has done a Racism Blogwatch here and here.
This week at uuworld.org: Haiku as spiritual practice.
Some interesting blogging about Chinese law at Balkinization: Judicial Independence in China and China’s new labor law. Also, China’s Law on Lawyers.
Torture, torture, torture. Of especial interest is this link to Malcolm Nance’s Small Wars Journal essay, “Waterboarding is Torture … Period” (by a man who knows what he’s talking about).
On Torture Hypotheticals–Conservative Perspective, and lots more at Obsidian Wings.
The Strange Story of Dual_EC_DRBG: interesting stuff about random number generation, for cryptography nerds.
Elliot and Eve discuss their favorite Bible verses.
Should George be the next USCCB prez?
The John Jay study of clergy sex abuse challenges evangelical Catholics.
10th Carnival of Positives, about HIV/AIDS.
Pakistani students against martial law.
More on the Egyptian Blogosphere.
An Evangelical Rethink on Divorce?
Stress: Brain Yields Clues About Why Some Succumb While Others Prevail – October 18, 2007.