Unfortunately, because of the fevered religious climate between Muslims and Christians, some Jews are getting outspoken in their rigor, but that's just symptomatic of the general nuttyness in the air. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
It also triggered a twitter exchange between Ross Douthat and Alan Jacobs, both of whom are significant voices in the current religious climate and both of whose work has been a great stimulus to my own thinking over the years. (firstthings.com)
In the complete change of religious climate after Constantine most of the new patterns of priestly behavior and pastoral rule which were to prevail for a millennium in both Eastern and Western Catholicism until challenged by Protestantism were laid down in the period between the Council of Arles in 314 and the Council of Chalcedon in 451. (religion-online.org)