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One would have to conclude, after reading the latest Washington Post hymn to the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, that we are witnessing the end of an era in which old Southern Democrats walked the earth like complex, even troubled, men of the people.
As Bobby “Bible Belt” Ross Jr. noted the other day, this summer’s meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention did all kinds of interesting stuff. I choose to write about the Gulf of Mexico resolution for Scripps Howard, but, frankly, the divorce resolution was just as interesting and I still hope to dig into that one. It is rare to see conservative believers (or liberal believers, for that matter) point the finger of judgment at themselves.
One of the first tasks that young journalists face when they arrive at a mainstream journalism internship is having to write a bunch of those short news stories that newsroom folks call “briefs.”
That sound you heard yesterday from here in Beltwayland was a giant, collective sigh. Here’s the top of the obligatory Washington Post piece, which ran on A1 instead of in the Style pages:
More than three months ago, 10 Baptist mission workers from Idaho made major headlines when they tried to take 33 children from earthquake-devastated Haiti.
As is often the case, the mainstream press was handed a fascinating church-state separation case today and didn’t seem to realize it. Here’s the top of the A1 report in the Washington Post:
Back in my Colorado journalism days, I attended a national conference that drew a wide variety of people who backed the ordination of women. As I walked around the campground scribbling notes (often with a sharp journalist named Douglas LeBlanc), I became aware of just how much diversity was present in that body of believers.
My family returned to Baltimore last night after celebrating a joyful Pascha (that’s Easter in the ancient churches of the East) at a church in Salem, Mass., with family and soon-to-be family.
