On Palm Sunday I visited a mission congregation that’s largely on my theological wavelength. I would have felt entirely at home if sound theology alone made for rewarding worship.
Hymns abide
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Terri speaks! -- from Heaven
It’s the sort of glurge one expects in the Inspirational category of sympathy cards at the chain grocery story: the human soul is in Heaven, watching our every movement with newly acquired supernatural powers. Except in this case the body is not dead yet:
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Ashley Smith's vilification begins
The story of Ashley Smith’s heroism was bound to annoy some journalists as being too pat, too unbelievable, too much of a redemptive ending in a story of carnage and mayhem. Lee Siegel, television critic of The New Republic, raises some fair questions about whether Smith’s story should be accepted uncritically, although reporters will have a difficult time gaining access to her captor, Brian Nichols, for some time to come.
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Meet Ronald Cranford, M.D.
Both sides in the Terri Schiavo tragedy have found specialists to examine Terri (or her medical records) and testify on their findings. These specialists sometimes have a history of activism for or against euthanasia, and it’s fair enough to note their history.
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What part of abstain do you not understand?
Here’s a roundup of how various media outlets have handled a study on teenagers’ redefinitions of the words abstinence and virginity. It’s amazing how much of a worldview can be packed into a simple headline.
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Starvation by serendipity
Daniel Schorr made an astonishing remark Monday on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered: “The [Terri Schiavo] case is a triumph of symbolism over substance. She has become the cause celebre of the right to life movement. There is no equally powerful right to death movement.” How is it, then, that Terri Schiavo is now in her fifth day of court-ordered starvation and dehydration?
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Bulletin: Fundies don't cotton to euthanasia
If you oppose Terri Schiavo’s death by starvation and dehydration, you may be a fundamentalist — at least according to an opinion-laden report this morning by Megan O’Matz of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
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St. Francis, pray for us
It’s often entertaining to read champions of the religious left excoriating fellow travelers for their cultural powerlessness or their unwillingness to stand up to the religious right. Consider Giles Fraser and William Whyte, writing in The Guardian as if Oliver Cromwell were in charge again and the public executions will begin tomorrow morning:
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A brief paean to Firefox
It’s been an especially busy week for all three editors of GetReligion, which affected our ability to post a fresh item today.
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