The highlight of the weekend in my estimation was a conversation between Drs. Robert Gagnon (of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary) and Jennifer Roback Morse (of the Ruth Institute) and The Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson (Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire, Episcopal Church) and Dr. John Corvino (associate professor of philosophy, Wayne State) that centered on the definition of marriage.

The report, which is an update of a 2004 survey by LI, documents more than 600 instances of hostility toward religion -- hostility it says is dramatically growing in both frequency and type. Most have taken place in the last 10 years. Religious liberty advocates have prevailed in legal challenges in some of the incidents, not in others.

A year later volume was on an exponential growth curve toward 1.8 zettabytes. (A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes; that's a 1 with 21 zeros trailing behind it.)"

The question is, with all this information, why aren't people getting smarter, and why aren't things better? The short answer is that we don't lack information; we lack wisdom and common sense.

That's 70 million churched adult women who are unhappy in their church roles. However, contrary to a widely shared perception, Christian women are as likely as Christian men to consider themselves to be leaders, Barna reports. About a third of both genders see themselves as leaders. Further, most women (52%) believe the church is receptive to their leadership, while only about 30% serve as leaders at work, at home or in their community.