Here’s more from ABC News on the Jesus codes inscribed in military rifles. The Marines Corps is going to talk with the manufacturer, apparently concerned how the guns might  be “perceived.” But CentCom says it sees no difference between this and U.S. currency, which has religious inscriptions. (Photo from ABCNews.com)

Some of our readers are observing Tisha B’Av, the 9th day of Av, the day that marks the destruction of the First and Second Temples. On this day, Jews fast and read from the book of Lamentations:
4:2 The precious children of Zion
Once valued as gold
Alas they are accounted as earthen pots
Work of a potter’s hands!
How many times have [...]

Facing the global economic crisis, Prime Minister Gordon Brown calls on religious leaders to help develop a “shared moral sense” to govern markets and the economy.  He spoke of the need to conquer fear with faith.
In a speech at St Paul’s Cathedral, the Prime Minister drew on religious doctrine in a highly-personal address which warned [...]

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich tells U.S. News and World Report  he’s launching a group to reach out to Christians and religious conservatives, and heal the rift between economic and religious conservatives.
“In the last few years I’ve decided that we’re in a crisis in which the secular state, if allowed, will fundamentally and radically change America against [...]

Catholic News Service reports the global economic crisis has contributed to a delay in Pope Benedict XVI’s new social encyclical, “not for financial reasons, but because the crisis has demonstrated how important and how complicated the topic is.”
If the encyclical “does not deal competently with the economic reality, it cannot be credible,” Pope Benedict said Feb. [...]

(the first two syllables of our blog’s name are pronounced like the first two syllables of “bibliography”)
Spurred to action by our parallel concerns over the present economic crisis and our societies’ drift from core values, we are a multi-faith group aiming to educate the public about the Bible’s wisdom on the economic world.  Our mission: [...]