Monday digest

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New today from the Century:

• Ann Duncan and Andy Langford on the Hunger Games trilogy (spoiler alert): "While Suzanne Collins’s trilogy does not have overt Christian themes, it does offer a social vision familiar to Christians." (subscription required)
• Carol Howard Merritt on a formative faith moment in her childhood: "My mother paces the kitchen. Instead of grabbing the
  phone again, she picks up a basin and our plushest guest
  towels."
• Dean Lueking blogs the lectionary
• Lois Huey-Heck on a pre-Hispanic calendar in Mexico (subscription required)

In the news:

• Vatican pulls support for seminarians' soccer league 
• Crystal Cathedral downfall offers cautionary tale
• As Rowan Williams retires, speculation turns to successor
• Evangelicals voting in record numbers in GOP primaries 
• White House proposal gives religious groups more say in birth control mandate
• Bishops 'dubious' on White House contraception compromise
• Norway's state church headed toward dis-establishment
• Egyptian Christians mourn death of Coptic Pope Shenouda III