Tuesday's News & Ideas
Future of mainline Protestantism
Patheos: Solidly established in American society, mainline Protestantism faces a threshold. How will it retool itself for a new century?
Love where you live
Christianity Today: Urban, suburban and rural churches respond to new challenges in a less mobile era.
The reinvention of the reverend
Newsweek: Why the indefatigable Al Sharpton still has work to do. And what his evolution tells us about race and politics in Obama’s America.
Seven leadership traits the gurus don’t tell you
BNet (UK): Most leadership gurus tell you half the truth, at best, about what it takes to be a leader.
Robert Duvall's cinematic take on faith
National Public Radio: The actor's new film, Get Low, is not religious per se, but many see it as highly spiritual.
The Spark
Photography in the fourth dimension
Time-travel shenanigans have been made possible by a new website called Historypin, which allows you to pin your own photographs -- old and new, with accompanying stories -- to a gigantic virtual map of the world. The idea has potential. They're calling it a "digital time machine" and, this being the age of Wikiality, anyone can contribute. What's history? Whatever you pin.
Researchers at MIT have found a way to automate the process. Today’s camera is essentially a computer with a sensor and a lens, so why not pack in everything you can?
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