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As a famous religious figure once said, âAsk and you shall receive.â Sometimes even we media critics get what we ask for. Last month I asked for more â and deeper â coverage of hipster churches, and then this week veteran Godbeat reporter Michelle Boorstein fulfills my request (at least partially).
The following is a picky little post about a story that kind of got under my skin today. It’s a human-interest story that, on one level, is about sports.
While struggling to find words to adequately describe the worst religion article of the year, I was reminded of a brilliant exchange in an otherwise atrocious movie, Billy Madison.
In the world of church-state studies, few puzzles are as tough to crack as those that surround the work of military chaplains.
I really liked Tennessean Godbeat pro Bob Smietana’s profile last year of Richard Land, then the embattled president of the Southern Baptist Conventionâs Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. But what did I think of this week’s sequel?
Earlier this week, I critiqued an Associated Press story on the hullabaloo caused by a newspaper column in which a pastor’s wife referred to Southern Baptists as “the crazy old paranoid uncle of evangelical Christians.”
Today is the 504th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin (July 10, 1509) — and the 497th anniversary of misunderstanding Calvinists.
