Thursday's News & Ideas
Martin Marty: No easy predictions for Baptists' next 400 years
Associated Baptist Press: Nobody can predict with certainty what the future holds for Baptists or for any religious denomination, says church historian Martin Marty.
Religious groups fill Haiti government gaps
Wall Street Journal: In a country whose government has all but stopped functioning, religious missions are proving to be critical conduits of spiritual and material help.
How to get people to change
Inc.: If you want to influence employee or customer behavior, charts and data typically won't cut it, say authors of a new book on change management.
Two Catholic worlds collide as church disagreement deepens
Sydney Morning Herald: The fight, ostensibly, is over a baptismal font and some words in chalk on a wall, but the real conflict runs much deeper.
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Latino parishes waiting for new Catholic priests
Blue suede pews: Elvis church is thriving
Toronto Star: Breakaway Anglican has channelled the King of Rock `n' Roll each Sunday for seven years.
Religion News Service: Stop dressing like slobs, Sydney bishop urges clergy
The Spark
Flaking out
Wilson Alwyn Bentley was a snowflake man. So much so that he came to be known as "Snowflake." With the insanity of the collector, Snowflake proceeded to photograph and publish over 5,000 individual snowflakes. In the grand scheme of things, it is a pitiful gesture against infinity, Morgan Meis writes at The Smart Set, Drexel University’s online magazine. In the effort to preserve the beauty of the snowflake, Wilson accomplished very close to nothing. Which makes his little guys all the more special. Especially Snowflake 892.
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