Tuesday's News & Ideas
One last Mass, but lots to do still
The New York Times: A revered figure in his Bronx neighborhood, the Rev. John C. Flynn, 80, retires at the end of the month with "a lot to do" but not "much time to do it."
Sunday stroll: Retired pastor gets first ace at age 82
Sioux Falls (S.D.) Argus Leader: "It made me feel good," says retired pastor after hole-in-one. "I thought that maybe time was running out."
New Orleans pastors inclined not to let parishioners bring guns to church
The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune: Clergy uncomfortable with legislative proposal to allow parishioners to carry guns to church..
Innovation: Who else is doing it?
Harvard Business Review blogs: Innovation means you might have to be the first. And that might be a good thing.
A mission to serve and unify
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: A West Virginia woman helps start the first Salvation Army outpost in the United Arab Emirates, bringing its volunteerism to Abu Dhabi.
In Vatican fresco, visions of the brain
The New York Times: It has been hiding in plain sight for the past 500 years: a rare Michelangelo anatomical drawing high on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Or not.
NPR: Did Michelangelo draw a brain in God's neck?
The Spark
Culture clash in a Claremont center that integrates Eastern and Western thought
The China Project at Claremont's Center for Process Studies draws Chinese scholars to America, but the center, and American culture, can be a surprise for them.
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