Wednesday's News & Ideas
Fewer dollars, greater need at churches
Atlanta Journal Constitution: Many churches are facing the most severe drop in donations in a generation as the economy sputters.
Dueling editorials
Boston Globe: Rhode Island bishop errs in targeting Patrick Kennedy
Washington Times: Kennedy vs. Catholicism
Church's influence on politics shifting
Washington Post: D.C.'s same-sex marriage debate pushes some clergy further to the sidelines.
A church that is home to the homeless
Christian Science Monitor: At Trinity Evangelical Free Church in Skowhegan, Maine, Pastor Richard Berry lives the motto 'faith without works is dead.'
Giving thanks in secular, holy ways
Boston Globe: At Thanksgiving, the secular and religious impulses salute each other with respect.
The Spark
A college freshman with a major difference
The spartan dorm room where Mario Rocha spent his first semester at George Washington University felt a little like solitary confinement. He should know. He once spent a summer in solitary, part of 10 years he spent in juvenile detention and prison after being convicted -- wrongfully -- of first-degree murder. He is an innocent man who survived two prison stabbings, endured dispiriting courtroom defeats and prevailed against overwhelming odds.
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