Saturday's Pot Pourri

I have run across a number of interesting articles I thought worth bringing to people's attention. The New York Times has an article, "When football moves to head of the class" about football players who take few and easy classes to stay eligible to play. Matt Ryan, quarterback for BC (which plays Virginia Tech today for the conference title) already has his degree and takes three night school courses. Any thoughts?

Another interesting article, "Gospel Truth," in today's New York Times concerns the National Geographic's "sensational" translation of the Gospel of Judas last year. Scholar April D. Deconick criticizes the translation and the process that was used to translate the manuscript.

Lastly, Time magazine has an interesting article, "Sunday School for Atheists." The author notes,

But some nonbelievers are beginning to think they might need something [values/moral education] for their children. "When you have kids," says Julie Willey, a design engineer, "you start to notice that your co-workers or friends have church groups to help teach their kids values and to be able to lean on." So every week, Willey, who was raised Buddhist and says she has never believed in God, and her husband pack their four kids into their blue minivan and head to the Humanist Community Center in Palo Alto, Calif., for atheist Sunday school.