Wednesday digest

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New today from the Century:

• Still dying badly: A Christian critique by Allen Verhey: "The emphasis on patients' rights and autonomy has been a weak remedy for medicalized death." (subscription required)
• I'm weary of David Brooks: Last week's The Conversation has some good material about
  policy compromises Brooks and Gail Collins would be willing to make with each other if they
  comprised Congress. But first you have to get through Brooks's jokes about
  Occupy Wall Street."
• Ryan Dueck doesn't like hospitals: "How do we live and move inside these
  places? How do we pretend to have normal conversations about weather and
  sports and church and children’s activities alongside a wild-eyed woman
  stumbling around with her dressing gown wide open, or a sad-faced old
  man who keeps wandering around blankly, pushing his walker into chairs?"
• "Lexical reverie," a poem by Brett Foster

In the news:

• Pope appoints new ambassador to U.S.

• SBC leader cites Calvinism as top challenge

Links from elsewhere:

• 9-9-9 in one (really long) graph
• After Wall Street, occupy Wal-Mart
• Foodies, get thee to Occupy Wall Street
• Common Sense Jesus
• Genesis in binary code