Tuesday's News & Ideas
Pentecostalism, African style
Washington Post, On Faith blog: Africa is in the throes of religious revolution. One of the more hopeful trends is the rapid spread of Pentecostal churches.
Why good spreadsheets make bad strategies
Harvard Business blogs: Sometimes the things we can’t measure may be the most important aspect of the problems we're working on.
He fled Vietnam in a boat, now he's breaking new ground as a bishop
Toronto Globe and Mail: Canada's first Catholic bishop of Asian descent will be counted on to bring new Canadians together through the church.
Led into temptation
Financial Times: Church of England wrestles with the consequences of a financial crisis that has devastated its flagship pension plan. (May require registration)
Facing end-of-life talks, doctors choose to wait
The New York Times: Many doctors prefer to postpone conversations with terminal patients about end-of-life care, study finds.
The Spark
Preaching to bishops: An undertaker’s view
Among the blessings of poet Thomas Lynch’s work as a funeral director is that it puts him in earshot of clergy trying to make sense of senseless things. When someone shows up to stand with the living and the dead and speak into the gaping maw of the unspeakable, Lynch writes in Commonweal, he knows he is witnessing uncommon courage, and his perennially shaken faith is emboldened by theirs. Which is why the recent mischief by various bishops seems cartoonish, unseemly, so lacking in gravitas by comparison.
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