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Nearly two weeks of testimony ended Thursday in the trial of Jeffrey and Marci Beagley, who are charged with criminally negligent homicide for failing to provide medical care to their 16-year-old son. Neil Beagley died in June 2008 of complications from a congenital urinary blockage that had never been treated.
Jan
29Randall Stephens
The editors of the Science & Religion blog asked me to answer that question. One could come at that from any number of angles. So, here’s my 
stab at it . . .
Jan
29Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Carrollton is having a Haiti benefit concert Saturday.
Jan
29
Jeff Beagley told an Oregon City jury Wednesday that despite staying home from work the June 2008 day his 16-year-old son died, spending the whole night before awake talking to Neil, carrying his ill son to the bathroom and family members coming to pray over Neil, he didnt think Neils condition was bad enough that his life was in danger.
Jan
28by Phillip Luke Sinitiere
Last fall, Paul offered an insightful post (and others chimed in with equally thoughtful comments) on the ways that religion intersected with the first episode of Ken Burns’ latest documentary on national parks.
Jan
27President Obama goes up to Capitol Hill Wednesday night to deliver his State of the Union address. Of course, he does so having just suffered a serious setback in Massachusetts. He described the anger that fueled Scott Brown’s victory as akin to the revolt that elected him president.
Jan
27 The defense in the faith-healing trial in the June 2008 death of 16-year-old Neil Beagley began its case Monday with a medical expert witness who said the teen’s symptoms werent necessarily so bad that a reasonable person would think he could have died.
Jan
26Paul Harvey
At the 2010 American Historical Association, my co-editor Randall Stephens organized a session “American Religious Historians Online,” featuring presentations by the likes of Randall himself, Kathryn Lofton (Yale), Gary Laderman (Emory, and editor of Religion Dispatches), Rebecca Goetz (who started blogging at Historianess back in the Stone Ages), and myself. I was not present at the session itself, but Randall read my presentation for me. I’m going to post it here for anyone interested, and will put Randall’s up as well soon, and perhaps one or two others. The session was put into the dreaded AHA “death zone” of early Sunday morning, just as everyone is leaving, so attendance was about on par with one of my classes right before spring break, but we have the blog to broadcast parts of the session for those unfortunate enough to miss it. My contribution reflects on the origins and impact (or lack thereof) of this blog, and on broader themes of the relationship between self-selected and regulated scholarly communities and the unregulated blogging community. Your responses are welcome! Not you, though, evil spammers; your responses will be deleted as usual. Read the rest of this entry »
Jan
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PARIS — A parliamentary panel will recommend on Tuesday that France ban face-covering Muslim veils in public locations such as hospitals and schools, but not in private buildings or on the street, the group’s president said.
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