Religion News Service has an interesting trend piece, via The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., on growing acceptance of autistic children in church.
No chaplains in NYT foxhole
'Doing church' at home
In my work with The Christian Chronicle, I have enjoyed following the growth of simple/house/organic churches — pick the term you prefer, please — over the last few years. This is the lede on a piece I wrote five years ago:
If it bleeds, it leads
An excellent Kansas City Star news story puts a new twist on the old saying that “if it bleeds, it leads.”
Passion of the amusing Christian dude?
Maybe it’s my mood today — read: brain a bit mushy after a draining week — but a New York Times feature on a Passion play at a Florida rodeo arena kept me chuckling.
Fun, fun, fun ... at Ghanaian funerals
If everyone reading this GetReligion post could be very quiet, we’re going to explore a New York Times feature on Ghanaian immigrant funerals in the Big Apple. I ask you to pipe it down because the Ghanaians are partying like it’s — well, like someone is dead — and we sure wouldn’t want to interrupt the dancing, laughing and drinking with something so benign as discussion of spirituality and/or religion.
Journalism vs. stenography?
Granted, the piece I am about to critique is more stenography than journalism. Read: a reporter goes to a staged news event, soaks up one side’s point of view and spits it out on newsprint as the gospel truth.
Muslim Night at the ballpark?
Back in 2003, a friend of mine named Brent High made national headlines when he started organizing “Faith Nights” — Christian faith nights, that is — at minor-league baseball games in Nashville, Tenn.
