Many conservatives are, at the moment, cheering for several U.S. Catholic bishops. So be it.
Vested in secrecy
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RIP: The religion beat? (update)
As far as I know, veteran Godbeat and popular culture scribe Mark Pinsky isn’t dead (although I haven’t heard from him in a week or two, so I will check). His website is nice and up-to-date looking.
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Your Basic conversion story
I don’t know what’s more surprising. That Joe Eszterhas became a Christian or that a mainstream media paper did such a good job of telling the story of his conversion.
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The novel you can not read
Earlier this month, former Wall Street Journal reporter Asra Nomani, penned a fascinating, newsbreaking op-ed for the paper:
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5Q+1: It's pronounced "Dow-thut"
One of the advantages of living and working on Capitol Hill is that there are all kinds of interesting people who live in your neighborhood. I mean, there is this house a block or so away from my computer keyboard that, these days, has all kinds of people in black suits in black cars around it these days. I think it has something to do with it being the home of the junior senator from Illinois.
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Goose-stepping Solzhenitsyn rites?
OK, I have some questions after reading the mainstream news coverage of the funeral rites for Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
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Trying to trim Solzhenitsyn down to size
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn did not live the kind of life that fits easily into a 700-word wire service story.
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Define "evangelical" (again and again)
Most of this week, I am swamped with classroom work for the Oxford Centre for Religion & Public Life, which is holding a seminar in Washington, D.C.. So I have had very little time for reading newspapers and blogging.
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Now, it'll be harder to find Pinsky
Let me say, as a follow-up on the Divine Ms. MZ’s post about Neela Banerjee of the New York Times getting caught in the newsroom downsizing wave (click here), that your GetReligionistas have also heard the news out of Orlando.
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