Yes, Christian rockstars are real. But Katy Perry isn’t one. She years ago gave up on Christian music, and her image is anything but.
The Gospel of Katy Perry
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Obama Islam hysteria!
Have you heard the news? President Obama is a Muslim after all. I couldn’t believe it, but he must be. I mean, 18 percent of Americans couldn’t be wrong. I can only assume that, two years after I thought this “story” had been laid to rest, that some reputable media outlet finally exposed Obama for the closet Muslim (not that there’s anything wrong with that) that nearly one in five Americans think he is.
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Pastoring no plush gig
No one can make you feel guilty like a pastor. Or in this case a New York Times story about pastoral burnout that I’ve been meaning to write about for two weeks:
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Minnesota's defender of the faith
Ramadan began yesterday, and with it came a stream of related stories. Holiday stories. You’ve heard me bemoan holiday stories before, and I’m certain I could cherry-pick plenty here. But like with the Jewish High Holidays last year, I’d rather highlight a story that bucked the trend of holiday boredom.
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The Taliban's Christian victims
The Taliban this weekend provided a tragic reminder of why short-term mission trips don’t pick Afghanistan as a destination. Ten murdered. But why?
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A Methodist, a Jew, a flippant reporter
I was really hoping to avoid another Clinton-Mezvinsky-wedding story after Monday’s discussion of the poor coverage of the Jewish traditions included in the ceremony. Really hoping. It just feels a bit too paparazzo for me.
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How Jewish was Clinton's wedding?
You’d hope that with all the navel gazing (live blogging!?) that led up to Chelsea Clinton’s marriage to Marc Mezvinsky — with all the speculation about the role of religion in the wedding of the Methodist former first daughter to a Jew from a powerful stock — that someone would have cared to provide a little nuance to the different religious imagery that made appearances in their no-luxury-spared ceremony Saturday.
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Israel is real for Amar'e
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Israel's Jewish question
There have been a lot of stories in the past week about the conversion bill that was steamrolling through the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, before being tabled for the next few months. Few prospective laws in the Middle East draw much attention, but this one did, largely because of it’s potential consequences for American Jews and future American Jews.
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