A regular feature here at Faith Public Life, here's what's happening around the neighborhood thus far this week.

Chuck Currie posts on a bunch of bloggers from Chicago Theological Seminary. Be sure to drop by their blogs and welcome them to the neighborhood.

Chicago Theoligical Seminary student Faithfully Liberal posts on the Foley scandel and Bob Woodward's book: State of Denial.

At Progressive Christian, Geoffrey, provides more on the Foley fall out.

Sickened by the scandel? Spirit Blog posts a mediation called the Prosecutor.

Now, bring your sense of history over to Islamicate. He writes: "The October 2006 issue of Vanity Fair contains two important articles, which are worth reading: Empire Falls, by Niall Ferguson, and Under Egypt’s Volcano, by Scott Anderson.

In Empire Falls, Fergusson uses historian Edward Gibbon’s theories on the decline and fall of Rome to make an interesting, if not convincing, case for the same state of conditions currently in play in the West. Gibbon’s blamed Rome’s decline on external military overreach, internal corruption, social decadence, religious transformation, and barbarian invasion. Fergusson counters with the War on Terror, the cult of personality, superficiality, reality TV, cultural decline, immigration, and the rise of political Islam."

Save yourselves from this corrupt generation writes: I Understand Opposing Abortion, but . . .. . . opposing contraception in general is going too far. Rethinking traditional religion, Johnny writes about Amish abuse. For Yom Kippur, Velvateen Rabbi writes about Philo and how Jews like to eat.

And Xpatriated Texan wonders if he is still living in America.

Definitely in AmericaJspot has a great Air America clip about the connection between religious communities and worker's rights.

A skeptical AmericanMainstream Baptist wonders about the new moderate Christian Coalition.

And finally, Bruce over at Talk to Action provides a bit o' "truthiness" humor about the Family Research Council.