Monday's News & Ideas
Good hair, good God! The divine politics of African-American hair
Religion Dispatches: Comedian Chris Rock has created a documentary called “Good Hair” which is exploring the ways in which black hair effects individuals, families, economics, social location, sexuality and religion, writes Anthea Butler.
Internet believers: pastors open online churches
Associated Press: The move online is forcing Christians to re-examine their idea of church. It's a complex discussion involving theology, tradition and cultural expectations of how Christians worship and relate.
Leadership without a secret code
New York Times: Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust says much of her job involves listening to people and trying to understand how to mobilize their understanding of themselves in service of the institutional priorities.
First Baptist Church of Dallas announces $130 million renovation project
Dallas Morning News: The historic First Baptist Church of Dallas on Sunday announced one of the country’s largest church building programs: a $130 million project to revamp its six-block campus near the downtown cultural arts district
Should prayers be covered?
Chicago Tribune: As the health care battle moves forward, Christian Science church officials are promoting a proposal in the legislation requiring insurers to consider covering the church's prayer treatments.
The Spark
A new world
From the conversion of Rome around the 4th century until relatively recently, Western maps asserted a peculiarly Christian topography, one of both space and time. But the German humanists who created the Waldseemüller map -- the 16th-century map that gave America its name -- applied the recently rediscovered mathematical and cosmological insights of Ptolemy to map their rapidly enlarging world. Although the representations of the Old World continued to represent a geocentric view, the newly discovered lands were a different story. A new book tells the story of the once-lost map.
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