Thursday digest

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New today from the Century:

• Philip Jenkins on the Dutch Bible belt: "The persistence of a rigorously orthodox Protestant area in the Netherlands must make us rethink our
  generalizations about the state of religion
  in Europe." (subscription required)
• Amy Frykholm reviews James Kloppenberg's Obama book for the magazine and Mark Davis's end-times-humor book for the blog
• A paraphrase of the pope's recent ecumenical gesture

In the news:

• Supreme Court to weigh churches' hiring rights
• U.S. Christians rally around Iranian pastor
• Is there a death penalty-sized hole in Catholicism's 'seamless garment'?
• Mother cares for her son's Amish victims
• Churches lose fight over Ala. immigration law

Links from elsewhere:

• Alabama best in nation at teaching children about civil rights movement
• Immigration-crackdown profiteering
• Princeton tears down scholarly paywalls