Friday's News & Ideas
In search of the big idea
InsideHigherEd: Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University, urged his peers to stop trying to one-up each other and accept that they have different missions, different audiences and different strengths, Crow said at a higher education leadership conference. "We don't need three or four models. We need 10 or 15 models," he said.
Chronicle of Higher Education: College leaders offer blunt advice for campuses hit by hard times
Kansas organist rests fingers after 58 years
Salina (Kan.) Journal: Harry Huber spent nearly six decades as a professor of music and church organist. He knew how to lead the congregation into a quiet, meditative state or wake them up as called for. "They don't go to sleep singing the hymns," Huber said.
Rising from the Valley of Death
Christianity Today: Eighteen months ago, singer Steven Curtis Chapman lost his daughter, 5-year-old Maria Sue, to a tragic accident. In an interview, Chapman talks about the grieving process and channeling that grief into his newest album, “Beauty Will Rise.”
Camillo Cibin
The Telegraph: Camillo Cibin, who has died at age 83, was the papal bodyguard who leapt over a wooden barrier in St Peter's Square in 1981 to prevent the gunman from escaping after attempting to assassinate Pope John Paul II. Cibin was known as "the pope's guardian angel.”
The need to feed hungry families cultivates new interest in gleaning
Christian Science Monitor: Recent college graduate Corinne Almquist works with farmers and volunteers to revive the practice of gleaning. In recent weeks she has delivered about 6,000 lbs. of squash, carrots, potatoes and apples to food shelves or senior centers.
The Spark
The second glance
When your face is disfigured, you live in a world of averted glances and double-takes, said David Roche. People don’t expect you to be confident or comfortable. But after they’ve faced their own fear, people can take a second look and see you in a different way. “I want to redefine what is beautiful,” Roche says in an 8-minute film on the website Soul Biographies. “My face is a gift because I’ve been forced to find my inner beauty.”
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