Monday digest

March 25, 2013

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New today from the Century:

Suzanne Guthrie on finding peace at a monastery: "I see the sign and drive past. I know two monks there, and I've been grabbing at every possible lead. But I'm too ashamed to turn in." (subscription required)

Harold Bush reviews Charles Duhigg, whose "book will remind readers of Malcolm Gladwell's best work. It represents the best 'popular brain science' genre can offer."

Janet Edwards on the Supreme Court and same-sex marriage

Ben Stewart blogs the lectionary: "The springtime symbolism of Easter has been trivialized by cartoonish Easter grass, bunnies and butterflies. But early Christian interpretations of Easter drew deeply on springtime imagery."

Carol Howard Merritt on technology and identity

Early Christianity, fragment by fragment

A new published volume of ancient papyri contains sayings, attributed to Jesus, that were previously unknown—including a dialogue with a disciple named Mary.

by Elizabeth Schrader Polczer

In the Lectionary