Friday digest

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New today from the Century:

• Gilbert Meilaender on immortality: "Desirable as living forever may sound, it invites us to forget another kind of desire that we creatures should not quench." (subscription required)

• Carol Howard Merritt on Impact 365

• Steve Thorngate on getting web alerts for the phrase "Christian century"

• A brief review of James Howell

• "Flamboyance," a poem by D. S. Martin

In the news:

• Immigration reform becomes personal for evangelicals
• Gay Catholic delivers 18,000 signatures to bishop asking to be reinstated
• At makeshift National Mall graveyard, clergy demand gun control
• Obama awards Catholic army chaplain Medal of Honor