Over at the New Yorker, George Packer writes, "If there were a threat level on the possibility of war with Iran, it might have just gone up to orange. Barnett Rubin, the highly respected Afghanistan expert at New York University, has written an account of a conversation with a friend who has connections to someone at a neoconservative institution in Washington."

Many around the prog. faith blogosphere have noticed this surge in rhetoric from the Bush administration and their conservative fringe about going to war with Iran.

Faithful Progressive notes the drum beats coming from Fox News.

Notice the giddiness with which religious right mouthpiece Glenn Beck connects Iraq, Iran, WWIII and, yes, he says it: the coming of the messiah.

Over at Street Prophets, Rain writes on the weakened Bush administration: The temptation to distract by starting another war must be strong.

Brian McLaren has a great piece over at God's Politics entitled, A Nuclear Plank in the Eye. He writes:

I hope that more and more of us will become motivated – and resourced by our faith – not simply to complain about violent solutions to the problem of violence, but instead to make better proposals, because this one, I believe, is a recipe for disaster. To continue living by the sword, according to a reputable authority, is not a sustainable long-term strategy for living at all.

And finally, Get Religion tackles the recent attention to revelations about Mother Teresa's personal spirituality. Here's Chris Hitchens' piece for Newsweek. Commenting on it, Get Religion writes:

Hitchens nods to the Dark Night as a reality for several Christian saints throughout the centuries, yet still misses its fundamental point: The saints who have endured the Dark Night have not surrendered to disbelief.

As Faithfully Liberal points out "oh, my God, Mother Teresa had doubts."