Friday's News & Ideas
White House at odds with bishops over abortion
Associated Press: Intractable dispute over abortion could blow up fragile political coalition behind health care overhaul.
New York Times: Christian leaders unite on political issues
Rowan Williams urges Rome to rethink position on female bishops
The (London) Guardian: Archbishop of Canterbury says more unites Anglicans and Catholics than divides them.
The New York Times: Anglican leader defends faith as Vatican welcomes his members
What exactly are atheists so scared about?
The (London) Telegraph: Christians aren't indoctrinating their children, just trying to make sense of the world.
The six factors that drive confidence in leaders
Next Level blog: Insights from an annual survey by the Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership.
Church sign raises objection
Terre Haute (Ind.) Star-Tribune: Horrified by church sign message, teenager objects.
The Spark
The promise of purple
The year that novelist Ann Hood loved purple was the year her father finally came home for Christmas. He wore a white Navy uniform with a patch of a fighting Seabee on it and a sailor's hat on his blond hair. It was 1963, and he had spent two long years stationed in Cuba while she and her mother and brother and lived with her grandmother. Though she’d never seen a purple bike, that’s what she wanted for Christmas, Hood writes in the Washington Post magazine. And with Dad home, she was sure that Christmas would be perfect.
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