Thursday digest

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New today from the Century:

• Jon Sweeney on religious identity: "At a seder or shul, I am with my primary congregation—even though I'm not Jewish. And the fact that I'm a rebbetzman is not the only reason I attend." (subscription required)

• Steve Thorngate on the individual insurance market: "President Obama wasn’t being honest when he said that if you like your health insurance plan, you can keep it. But that doesn't make Obamacare bad policy."

• MaryAnn McKibben Dana on Facebook and the problem of recency

• Mikeal Parsons and Heidi Hornik on Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares (susbcription required)

In the news:

• Supreme Court wrestles with how ‘religious’ prayer should be at public meetings
• Evangelicals stand by Doug Birdsall after dismissal from American Bible Society