The Archive
Day: January 3, 2011
A visual poem from Radiolab
Andrew Sulllivan named this wonderful video from Radiolab and NPR as his “mental health break” of the year. What makes is so beautiful and so haunting?
Assorted updates from abroad
The court found that “the call to hang gays in dozens tends to tremendously threaten their right to human dignity” and that the tabloid’s act “threaten the rights of the applicants to privacy of the person and their home.”
Class decides whether professor will donate a kidney
Most college students write papers and read academic journals as class assignments. But how often does 5 percent of a final grade depend on deciding the fate of the professor’s internal organs?
Cutié’s new book is critical of Catholic Church
In a controversial book being released Tuesday, Roman Catholic-turned-Episcopal priest Alberto Cutié lashes out against his former church, calling it “misogynistic,” ‘‘disconnected” and an “institution that continues to promote old ideas.”
A united church
Brought together by a power higher than our own, we find ourselves on the virgin soil of this new continent, the representatives of numerous nationalities of the old world. Our childhood, boyhood, manhood, early training, and later education have been widely different, and the associations, modes of thought and local surroundings of each individual have not been without their influence in the formation of our character as a Church.