Wednesday's News & Ideas
The spirit is alive and well in Haiti
USA Today: Makeshift revivalist meetings and other religious gatherings are springing up from the rubble of Haiti's sprawling capital.
Catholic bishops to Congress: Ditch the politics, pass health care
Politics Daily: In a test of their political influence, U.S. Catholic bishops tell Congress to put politics aside and focus on the "moral imperative" of passing universal health care.
Was the Bush faith-based initiative a failure?
Christianity Today: Faith-based initiatives were never intended to expand government funding of churches to provide social services, says Stanley Carlson-Thies.
The need for stress and conflict
Alban Institute: Despite the ideal image of the loving, peaceful congregation, sometimes the leader’s job is to enhance, not reduce, conflict.
The disconnected CEO
N2Growth blog: How do CEOs get to the point of being so disconnected that they just don’t have a clue?
Spark
Strange places on Mars
Over the past three years, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured more than 13,000 images of the red planet’s surface. Equipped with the most powerful camera on any NASA spacecraft (a High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, camera, not available at Target), the orbiter has collected truly amazing images. The images highlight how similar the Martian landscape is to Earth in some ways, as well as how otherworldly other parts of Mars can seem. Wired has collected just a few of the oddest and most beautiful shots.
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