Tuesday digest

Subscribe by RSS feed: magazine, blogs, news. See all feeds.

New today from the Century:

• Ben Dueholm on civil religion at Gettysburg: "Lincoln turned toward the philosophical case for abolition for the same reason Roosevelt turned toward the Four Freedoms: so much death could not be allowed to leave the world untransfigured."

• MaryAnn McKibben Dana on preaching it like Lincoln: "In the Gettysburg Address, we see the classic preacher's conundrum: the call to put words around that which is ineffable. Can we do it in 272 words?"

• Beth Felker Jones on Don Jon: "Don Jon is not about a porn addict saved by a good woman. It's about the unhealthy collision of two people who are ready only for broken relationships." (subscription required)

• Carol Howard Merritt on how advice for pastors can be destructive

• Hardy Kim's lectionary column for Sunday, December 1 (subscription required)

In the news:

• Survey: Same-sex couples create own rules in wedding planning
• Jews challenge worship rules at holiest of Jerusalem sites
• Church of England ‘one generation from extinction’ says former archbishop