Monday's News & Ideas
Take heed UM churches, and youth will stay away
UM Portal: Ben Boruff has some tips for how the church can finish the job of ridding itself of young people.
In weaving faith into campaign, Santorum resorts to chiding opponents
Washington Post: Rick Santorum is betting that Americans want a president who uses faith not just to inspire -- but also to judge.
The New York Times, blog: Rick Santorum and the politics of theology
How Obama should fight the 'war on religion'
Washington Post: The sense of mutual responsibility that is so fundamental to the Judeo-Christian tradition is what President Obama should emphasize now, says Lisa Miller.
Faith, sin and Jeremy Lin
Washington Post: An interview with Jeremy Lin's pastor.
Facing death, a top pastor rethinks what it means to be Christian
CNN Belief blog: Former Christian Right operative Ed Dobson is not afraid of dying. It's the getting there that really scares him.
Ann Svennungsen elected bishop of the ELCA Minneapolis Area Synod
ELCA News Service: The Rev. Ann M. Svennungsen elected to a six-year term as bishop of the Minneapolis Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
The Spark
Our unrealistic attitudes about death, through a doctor's eyes
As a hospital internist, Craig Bowron is often asked by families to use his physician superpowers to push a patient's tired body further down the road, with little thought as to whether the additional suffering will be worth it. For many Americans, modern medical advances have made death seem more like an option than an obligation, Bowron writes in the Washington Post. "We want our loved ones to live as long as possible, but our culture has come to view death as a medical failure rather than life's natural conclusion ."
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