Friday's News & Ideas
Troubled priests often shun help, experts say
The (Canada) National Post: Canadian bishop scandal triggers questions about how willing priests are to seek help.
Why smart chief executives make dumb decisions
ChiefExecutive.Net: How to avoid eight common blunders
Calls to God: Always a busy signal
The New York Times: Are the Coen brothers mocking God, playing God or taking his side in a rigged cosmic game? What’s the difference?
Christianity Today: The Coen brothers' world
National Post: The Invention of Lying
At 3 inches tall, La Morenita casts a big shadow in Honduran crisis
Wall Street Journal: When all else fails, nation turns to the Virgin of Suyapa for a miracle
A lesson in nuances of tolerance, recognition
St. Petersburg Times: After sending one child to school and keeping another home on Yom Kippur, a Jewish public school parent has a few thoughts.
The Spark
Revelation revised
Royal Skousen, a professor at Brigham Young University, spent more than 20 years working on "The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text,” seeking to recreate the text that Joseph Smith envisioned. And yet, as Skousen admits, his edition "doesn't change any of the stories, doesn't change the doctrine" of the Book of Mormon. But so it goes for all textual criticism, he told Wall Street Journal reviewer Stephen Prothero. We learn something from close attention to the textual history of the Bible or of Shakespeare, but the Lord's Prayer is still the Lord's Prayer, and "Hamlet doesn't marry his mother." What this new edition signifies is the seductive power that scripture has over human beings.
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