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The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to consider whether to grant review of the Defense of Marriage Act. This follows the recent appellate court decision declaring the 16-year-old law unconstitutional. Judges in New York and Boston have now said DOMA violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause and interferes with a state’s right to set marriage eligibility requirements. But the final word will come from the Supreme Court.

New today from the Century: Craig Barnes on leaving his congregation, Steven Porter on the Supreme Court and DOMA, more.

After school, I was milking the cow and listening to the radio when I heard a menacing baritone intone the words, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die." It made an impression.

New today from the Century: Rodney Clapp's personal soundtrack, Diane Roth on visiting her dad at the nursing home, more.

Critics of the food movement's emphasis on organic, smaller-scale and local/regional agriculture tend to point out that feeding the world requires large-scale, conventional farming. But we're already producing more food than we need. The problem is drastic inequalities of access. A new report from Oxfam (pdf) highlights one particularly egregious force behind these inequalities: foreign speculators buying up farmland in poor countries.

The presidential campaign has been an exhausting marathon. Yet it's hardly touched on some major issues facing the nation.

Many churches, including mine, will mark All Saints Day this Sunday. Of course, politics will also be on everyone’s mind. At first it seemed to me that the two have little in common, but then several connections occurred to me.

New today from the Century: The editors on topics the campaign avoided, Martin Copenhaver reviews Anthony Robinson and Robert Wall, more.

Here are some things I read recently but didn't get around to blogging about: A prayer for Hurricane Sandy, end the town-hall debate, more.