Thursday digest

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New today from the Century:

• Steve Thorngate rounds up coverage from around the web of the Supreme Court's decision on health-care reform

• Bromleigh McCleneghan on saying a bad word from the pulpit: "I wasn't trying to be controversial, but I did feel called to preach a sermon on birth control. Also: I used the word 'slut.'"

• "The pastor," a poem by Sydney Lea

In the news:

• Ahmadi Muslim leader pushes plight in Congress
• Conservatives line up against sperm donors, but lack the power to ban them
• Victims group urges Philadelphia archbishop to defrock convicted priest, Monsignor William Lynn
• Tiny Torah travels from hell on earth into outer space