Wednesday's News & Ideas
Charitable giving declines
The New York Times: Charitable giving fell last year by the largest percentage in five decades, according to a new study by the Giving USA Foundation.
The undercover boss
Financial Times: Going undercover as an office worker at his own business, a new CEO is forced to rethink much of what he thought he knew about management. (website may require registration)
Pastor: Southern Baptists should honor Obama
Associated Press: Southern Baptist pastor asks denomination to acknowledge the importance of President Obama's election, despite SBC opposition to many of his policies.
Study: Megachurch attenders tend to be younger and less likely to give, volunteer
Associated Press: Despite their reputation as symbols of baby-boomer America, Protestant megachurches attract a younger crowd and more singles than the average Protestant church.
Millions wiped out by church gambles
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia): The world's richest and largest Anglican diocese has lost more than $100 million in the stock market and is investigating ways to cut programs and ministries.
The Spark
Catch and release
The Rev. Amy McCreath, Episcopal chaplain at MIT, hates June, the time of year when she must say goodbye to another class of students. Sometimes it makes her wish for a more stable form of ministry, where people didn’t always come and go. But this year, she realized that she had learned something about what ministry is for. “We are called to fish for people,” she writes on the Daily Episcopalian website. “We haul them in, not for ourselves, not for the fulfillment of our little projects or the ordering of our fractures lives, but for Christ. . . . It’s catch and release, catch and release.”
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