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“People must believe what they can,” writes George MacDonald, “and those who believe more must not be hard on those who believe less.” Faith is a gift. We don’t produce it ourselves. We receive it. And we certainly can’t brag about having more of it than other people do.

New today from the Century: Best recent books, pastoring a pastor, more.

Here are some things I read recently but didn't get around to blogging about.

What might God have to say about the creatures most people don’t think of as lovable?

On Wednesday, the Catholic bishops' ad hoc committee issued a strongly worded statement on religious liberty. It includes a number of specific examples of "religious liberty under attack." Over at U.S Catholic, Meghan Murphy-Gill responds to these one by one.

So it turns out that the president and first lady's tax burden for last year was only 20.5 percent. Does this make Obama a hypocrite for criticizing Mitt Romney's low tax rate? Only if he blames Romney personally for not voluntarily paying more. As I said in Romney's defense a while back, the problem isn't that presidential candidates with plenty of money aren't willing to pay their taxes. The problem is that their taxes are too low.

New today from the Century: Calvin DeWitt beholds the hippo, Steve Woolley draws some worship lines, more.

For some Christians, the menace of apostasy is anything but distant or theoretical.