Helping Fertility-Challenged Orthodox Jews Conceive
The Jewish Community Council of Montreal (Vaad Ha’ir) and the McGill Reproductive Centre, located at the Royal Victoria Hospital, have officially launched a program that strictly adheres to halachah while offering the latest technology, including in vitro fertilization. (Janice Arnold, Canadian Jewish News)

Archbishop of Canterbury: Both Faith and Reason Needed In Education
In his lecture, the archbishop said that the recent record of the purely rational and secular approach to intellectual and academic life is problematic: “… the sober testimony of the 20th century is that the rationality of secular thinking is no guarantee of universal understanding and reconciliation. A rationality that has brought us into the age of nuclear weaponry and global economic meltdown invites some sharp questions, to put it mildly. … As the pope has argued several times in recent years, the drift toward relativism and pluralism is not the triumph but the defeat of reason …” (Rowan Williams, Anglican Communion News Service)

Controversial Faith-Based Treatment Program in Minnesota Has Received More Than 2 Million Dollars From the State
The overtly evangelical nature of Minnesota Teen Challenge, a faith-based chemical dependency program, raises questions about the constitutionality of the large amount of state money flowing into the program. Teen Challenge has received 2,388,947 dollars in state funding since 2007, mainly from the Minnesota Department of Human Services, according to the state’s new Transparency and Accountability Project Web site. (Andy Birkey, The Minnesota Independent)

“Is God Dead?” Author Dies
For more than a year, John Elson had labored over an article examining radical new approaches to thinking about God that were gaining currency in seminaries and universities and spilling over to the public at large. When finally completed in 1966, it became the cover story for the issue of April 8, as Easter and Passover approached. The cover was eye-catching, the first one in TIME’s 43-year history to appear without a photograph or an illustration. Giant blood-red letters spelled out “Is God Dead?’’ (William Grimes, The New York Times)