Thursday digest

December 13, 2012

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New today from the Century:

Stephanie Paulsell on the purpose of university churches: "Are they nostalgic relics, settings for academic rites, anomalies in uneasy relationship with schools' priorities?"

Steve Thorngate on what Monopoly was meant to be

Gail Irwin on the scars of loss

Lil Copan on art by Wendy Maruyama (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