Friday's News & Ideas
Rowan Williams goes to Wall Street to tell the money men to repent
The (London) Times: The whole world is broken, with continents such as Africa feeling forgotten and uncared for, says Archbishop of Canterbury.
UCC spokesman says decision to air Tebow Super Bowl ad 'arbitrary'
Associated Baptist Press: UCC spokesman says CBS decision shows favoritism to some religious viewpoints over others.
Christian Science Monitor: Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad: an astonishingly bold stand
The power of charisma
Forbes: What does it take to be a charismatic leader?
Pastors, hard questions about God, and doubt
Associated Baptist Press: Some things they can’t teach you in seminary, like how to answer the hard questions about suffering in Haiti.
Segregated in a whole new way
Christianity Today: A church family all of the same generation isn't much of a family.
How does an atheist come to believe in God?
Religion Dispatches: An interview with philosopher Jacob Needleman.
The Spark
Out of Auschwitz
Sixty-five years ago this week, the Soviets liberated Auschwitz, while the Americans were approaching Dachau. When Samuel Pisar entered Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele’s gruesome universe at the age of 13, he measured his life expectancy in days, weeks at the most. Writing in the New York Times, he says that to still be alive and well, with a new family that resurrected for him the one he lost, seems almost unreal.
Super Bowl ad
As much as I deplore the ad, CBS is a privately-owned network and has the right to accept or reject ads (as long as they don't violate FCC rules). Yes, arbitrary, but if it were the other way around and a UCC accepted, not only would the Christian Right be screaming, the Christian Left would be applauding the decision. The answer, of course, is for those who oppose to refuse to watch the Super Bowl ... viewer numbers are everything.
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