Thursday digest

May 9, 2013

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New today from the Century:

David Hollinger reviews Elesha Coffman, for whom "the pre-1960 Century is a window on the gap between an educated elite and a mass population of churchgoers." (subscription required)

Barbara Rossing's lectionary post for the seventh Sunday of Easter

Joanna Harader on the Cleveland kidnappings

Steve Thorngate reviews the band Dubl Handi

Carol Howard Merritt talks to David Jensen

Lil Copan on art by Madeleine Avirov (subscription required)

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