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I’m not sure what to think of a front-page New York Times story Monday that tried to connect the deaths of three children with a self-published book by Tennessee preacher Michael Pearl and his wife, Debi.
Better yet, say something nutty. And it would be particularly helpful if the nutty thing you said fed into all kinds of stereotypes about intolerant, uneducated hicks who live in the sticks.
“Stop the presses!” I joked three months ago when I critiqued a USA Today story on the years-old practice of churches renting public school facilities on Sundays.
I’m munching on a jack-o-lantern-shaped Butterfinger as I type this, so I suppose I’m not one of those “conservative and fundamentalist Christians” who think “Halloween is a celebration of evil and has no place in the life of a believer.”
That was the stylish headline this week as the Old Gray Lady devoted 1,800 words to cool Mormons â as opposed to the regular, stuffy kind.
In its most prime real estate â Column One â the Los Angeles Times recently carried the story of an inmate finding forgiveness on death row.
In my post the other day on the indictment of a Roman Catholic bishop in Missouri, I acknowledged that I am not an expert on the Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandals.
The big, national religion story of the past 24 hours involves the indictment of a Roman Catholic bishop in Missouri.
