Tuesday's News & Ideas
Catholic hierarchy reaches for the levers of power
Globe & Mail (Toronto): U.S. church leaders call politicians out on their beliefs with a vehemence that might be considered abusive in Canada.
Three clergymen, three faiths, one friendship
The New York Times: It sounds like the start of a joke: a rabbi, a minister and a Muslim sheik walk into a restaurant.
Real business geniuses don't pretend to know everything
Harvard Business blogs: Just because you're in charge doesn't mean you have to have all the answers.
One in Christ or coffee?
Out of Ur blog: The danger of replacing Communion with a coffee bar.
A dozen reasons to celebrate Darwin
Washington Post, On Faith blog: Reasons to celebrate on the 150th anniversary of “Origin of the Species.”
Los Angeles Times: What do scientists think about religion?
The Spark
A life of Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong, aka Satchmo, aka Pops, was to music what Picasso was to painting, what Joyce was to fiction, says a New York Times review of Terry Teachout’s new book, “Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong.” Armstrong was an innovator who changed the face of jazz, an inventive pioneer who helped remake 20th-century culture. As Teachout points out, Armstrong’s trumpet playing, like his singing, was the means for him to reflect on all that he had witnessed. “When I blow I think of times and things from outa the past that gives me an image of the tune,” Armstrong said. “Like moving pictures passing in front of my eyes. A town, a chick somewhere back down the line, an old man with no name you seen once in a place you don’t remember.”
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