Wednesday digest

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New today from the Century:

• Katherine Willis Pershey reviews Nadia Bolz-Weber: "As with many memoirists, Bolz-Weber's personal faults beget literary ones. Yet our regard for the narrator becomes less important than our regard for Christ."

• Sarah Azaransky on Ghanaian independence after oil

• Rodney Clapp on the gifts of the table: "The Eucharist gives us innumerable gifts, but we may think of its power especially in terms of three."

• David Heim on why Advent is the easiest season for faith

In the news:

• Two world-class libraries launch online archive of ancient Scriptures
• Activists end immigration fast as thousands of others take up the cause