The last time we checked in on Thomas Monaghan, the former czar of Domino’s Pizza, his newborn Ave Maria University was rolling out ambitious Phase 1 plans for a campus and surrounding town near Naples, Fla. The headline grabber was a 60,000-square-foot, 150-foot tall sanctuary for 3,300 worshippers that looked like a stack of gigantic metal-and-glass mitres for bishops.

It’s good to see that the folks at the Harvard Divinity School know how to stage a media event that offers nuance and balance when dissecting one of the most controversial news stories of the season — the box-office smash “The Passion of the Christ.” Here are some of the viewpoints included in the press release by Beth Potier of the Harvard News Office:

My first full-time job in journalism was working as a copy editor, which meant that I spent much of my trying to write good headlines to go over news stories. One of the first rules I learned was this: Don’t put a funny headline on a story unless you think there is something truly funny about the content of the story.

… up online at the Scripps Howard News Service side, if anyone wants to see the final step in the march from the God-beat blogosphere to dead tree pulp. Click here.

WACO — Every decade or so a journalism storm hits Baylor University, leading to a wave of ink about Baptists, sex and freedom of the press.

Baylor University’s faculty wars about whether “Christian higher education” exists and, if so, whether it is good or bad have attracted national media attention. Meanwhile, a similar showdown has been taking place on the quiet Mars Hill College campus in the stunningly beautiful North Carolina mountains just outside Asheville.