Monday digest

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New today from the Century:

• Celia Deane-Drummond, Dominic Johnson, Agustin Fuentes and Robin Lovin on what scientists and theologians talk about: "We can learn a lot from interdisciplinary conversation. But we are sometimes puzzled by how our colleagues know what they seem to know." (subscription required)

• Steve Thorngate on poverty babies: "I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin in the 80s and 90s. I knew very few people of color. But I was certainly familiar with the concept of a 'crack baby.'”

• Rhonda Mawhood Lee blogs the lectionary: "What you and I consider simple fairness, Jesus calls greed: a voracious appetite that can never be satisfied and will leave us empty in the end."

• Laura Kelly Fanucci on sacraments and interruption

• "Listen," a poem by Paul Willis