Monday's News & Ideas
Pope to priests: Go forth and blog
Associated Press: Pope urges priests to use multimedia to preach the Gospel and engage in dialogue with people of other religions and cultures.
Abraham: the old man and the seed
The (London) Telegraph: Jews, Muslims and Christians may all be the children of Abraham, but maybe we should stop invoking his name and legacy to our modern day political disputes.
The skeptic's survival guide
Patrol magazine: Nick Fiedler offers a practical approach to skeptical faith, "holding our pieces of truth loosely, but not letting go.”
Morristown nun crusades to canonize controversial pope
The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger: Sister Margherita Marchione is a staunch defender of the controversial Pope Pius XII, who led the Catholic church during the Holocaust.
Oakland A's prospect answers new calling
San Jose Mercury-News: Fast-rising minor leaguer retires from baseball to enter Catholic priesthood.
The Spark
Joe the Barber - master of the simple haircut
There are people in life who you see regularly and never know much about -- the mail carrier, the bus driver, the guy who gives you a haircut. You know their names, maybe, but not much else. You know them, but you don't know them. For years, Carl Nolte, a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, got his hair cut by Joe the Barber. Joe died the other day.
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