by Leonard Sweet (). "Jesus was a master at sound bytes that bite with terseness and immediacy. In fact, he was always twittering the gospel in pithy, memorable phrases, and even expressed his gospel in The Great Tweet: 'Love one another as I have loved you.' I suspect his followers would be well advised to RT (ReTweet) everything he said."
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from Inside Higher Ed. summarizes some new research about the correlation between college majors and religious observance. "Being a humanities or a social science major has a statistically significant negative effect on religiosity -- measured by either religious attendance and how important students consider the importance of religion in their lives. The impact appears to be strongest in the social sciences."
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I'm in New Orleans this week with my high school students at the ELCA Youth Gathering. We're posting daily highlight videos and group-updating . Check it out!
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The LA Times provides a list of . I've got some catching up to do; I've read less than 2%.
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Following in the footsteps of The Boston Globe's and The Wall Street Journal's , Christianity Today has launched , a photoblog that bills itself as "a daily view of Christian life." While not , there are some in the .
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C. Wess Daniels, a Quaker, discusses . Just for the fun of it, I'll replace the word 'Quaker' in a section of his post with 'Lutheran': "I have very little interest in Lutheranism, in as much as it is an ism. These things that are the “way we’ve always done them” can actually becomes obstacles to our believing in the power of God’s Spirit. The denominational nitty gritty, when it is left to its own devices and not rooted within the life of the tradition, only sustains structures often reinforcing the church’s role as a placeholder for our belief rather than a bottom-up community of people following God’s mission in the world. I want to be a part of a community that not only tells but also lives into the stories of those we call Lutheran."
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