Wednesday digest

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New today from the Century:

• Howard Eissenstat on the unrest in Instanbul: "Turkey may be a model for the rest of the Middle East, but the country faces deep problems. And religion is not at these problems' core." (subscription required)

• Ray Haberski on MLK's moral authority

• Martha-Lynn Corner on observing the pain of ministry

• Rodney Clapp on Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland: "Sittenfeld continues writing about women but not only for women." (subscription required)

In the news:

• Cardinal Dolan yuks it up with America’s ‘second most famous Catholic’
• Christians in Middle East: U.S. attack on Syria would be detrimental
• Unsafe abortions on the rise across Africa