Thursday's News & Ideas
'O, Evangelicos!'
Christianity Today: Evangelicals need not abandon their name -- just live up to it.
Bishops discuss authority over Catholic colleges
Associated Press: Bishops meet privately to discuss how to increase oversight of nation's Roman Catholic colleges and universities.
Lutherans second church to split over gays
Washington Times: Conservative Lutheran group to split from ELCA over the issue of homosexuality and related matters of biblical authority.
‘The Road' as outreach?
Christian Post: Faith community being asked to consider the much-anticipated film “The Road” as something that could be of value for ministry.
Get Religion blog: ‘Road’ campaign markets apocalypse
Abortion is not the only moral issue
Newsweek: Our entire health-care system is filled with complex moral choices. We shouldn't make our health-care debate about just one.
The Spark
Story specialists: Doctors who write
It's not uncommon for writers to have a day job. Lawyers write. Soldiers and teachers write. But physicians seem to have a special connection with the art of writing, National Public Radio reports. The list of doctors who are also novelists, playwrights and poets is long and impressive. Terrence Holt, a professor at the UNC School of Medicine and author of a new book of short stories, says literature is enormously helpful in the practice of medicine. "Patients bring us stories," he explains. "We drop into the middle of patients' stories and try to change the plot for the better.”
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