Tuesday digest

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New today from the Century:

• The editors on why people need institutions: "Humans can't flourish without institutions, flawed as they are. Holding them accountable, and increasing their capacity, enhances human life."

• Steve Thorngate on why he doesn't care who, if anyone, prays at the inauguration

• James McCarty on the social ethics of Les Miserables

• Matthew Myer Boulton and Elizabeth Myer Boulton's lectionary column for Sunday, January 27 (subscription required)

In the news:

• Humanists slice and dice the world's sacred texts
• U.S. mosques hit by shortage of imams
• Myrlie Evers-Williams talks about upcoming inaugural invocation
• Fewer Americans view homosexuality as a sin