Thursday digest

September 13, 2012

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New today from the Century:

Allen Verhey reviews Jeffrey Bishop, who is "both a physician and a philosopher. Here he turns his clinical and analytical gaze on medicine, and his diagnosis is bleak." (subscription required)

Rachel Stone reviews Lynn Gerber, whose "interaction with the discourses of evangelical weight loss and sexual reorientation is engaging, surprising and admirably charitable."

Debra Bendis on teacher evaluation and the Chicago strike

Steve Thorngate on why Amazon is building a bunch of new warehouses

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