From CNN.com: London (CNN) — A British Christian woman suffered religious discrimination when British Airways told her not to wear a visible cross over her uniform, a top European court ruled Tuesday. However, three other British Christians lost related religious discrimination claims at the European Court of Human Rights…. However, the court found that three other British Christians who argued they’d been unfairly dismissed from their jobs had not been subjected to religious discrimination. They are nurse Shirley Chaplin, who also... Read more

Matthew Yglesias: Evidence of intra-firm gender discrimination in the assignment of tasks and irrational aversion to appointing women to boards of directors is fascinating to me not only because sexism is an important issue, but because there’s a very clear and simple theoretical argument that this kind of widespread gender discrimination can’t exist. In a well-functioning competitive marketplace, firms that don’t discriminate will outperform those that do. And yet it’s obvious that systematic implicit discrimination against women is in fact widespread. So it should... Read more

Kyle Kensing: Jobs in the military once again top the CareerCast.com Jobs Rated rankings of the most stressful careers in 2013…. Among civilian careers, firefighter is ranked the most highly on the Jobs Rated stress scale. The job’s danger is apparent: running into burning buildings and dropping into forest fires calls for nerves and bravery few other careers require…. Police officer rounds out the most stressful job rankings. More than 110 officers were lost in the line of duty last year,according to... Read more

From Berkeley Wellness Letter: Eggs have a bad reputation because of their high cholesterol content: 210 milligrams in the yolk of a large egg. But, in fact, they do not raise blood cholesterol in most people—and they may even be good for your heart in some ways. Here’s the latest on eggs. Eggs and your heart You may be surprised to learn that dietary cholesterol, found in animal foods, raises blood cholesterol in only about one-third of people. And, as... Read more

From Tony Campolo: What a federal government determines to be law is one thing; what the church blesses it endorses; what it endorses must be demonstrated from Scripture. It appears to me Steve Chalke thinks a local church is a right for all. Tony Campolo’s view remains conservative (as is mine) and he urges evangelicals to a renewed thinking about how to love others well. If you haven’t already picked up the news via the internet, let me tell you... Read more

The word “controversy” and “C. Peter Wagner” stand next to one another when it comes to spiritual warfare. Wagner, a missiologist whose views on spiritual warfare have been transformed from “field” studies and from the social sciences, has made rather well known a view of spiritual warfare involving “territorial spirits.” He’s got a number of books, but today we are using his article, co-authored with Rebecca Greenwood (who wrote most of the substance of the article), in the book Understanding Spiritual... Read more