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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.

Are faith and doubt opposites? Thérèse of Lisieux and Virginia Woolf are part of the same history.

My friend Jan recently uninstalled the Disaster Alert app on her phone. Her hope was that the app would move her to pray and respond to natural and human-inflicted disasters as they happened. Instead, the app overwhelmed her and stressed her out.

New today from the Century: Stephanie Paulsell on saints and doubters, MaryAnn McKibben Dana on deep acting in ministry, more.

I entered divinity school assuming that Christians ought to believe something is seriously wrong with the world. But I also loved the world.