So, what do Tim Tebow, Jeremy Lin and Bubba Watson have in common?
Pod people: Bubba, Mitt and the tie that binds
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Correction please on The Atlantic's lol Kony report
Earlier this week, a reader sent us a “slightly alarmist” piece from The Atlantic on a Christian sect driving Africa. Can you guess what might be “The Upstart Christian Sect Driving Invisible Children”? Wait for it: the emerging church. That’s right. The movement that no one is talking about anymore.
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New artistic ghost in the Kinkade story
On one level, it’s easy to note that media coverage of the unexpected death of faith-based superstar artist Thomas “Painter of Light” Kinkade has moved past the early headlines and into an all-to-familiar second stage that is very popular with the mainstream press. I am referring to the fallen evangelical superstar with secrets stage.
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Cats, dogs, contraception and Rick Warren
Do all dogs go to heaven? Rick Warren thinks so, and he believes cats will enter paradise too according to an interview the mega-church pastor gave to ABC’s Jake Tapper for This Week on Easter Sunday. The influential pastor of Southern California’s Saddleback Church offered his views on the immortality of animal souls as well as comments on a wide range of issues including the implications of the Obama Administration’s HHS mandate.
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Explaining the Santorum mystery to America
So former Sen. Rick Santorum has dropped out of the GOP side of the horse race for the White House, which is a pretty big deal here in DC Beltway land. After all, nothing in life matters as much as the fine details of political horse races. That’s what average Americans wake up in the morning wondering about. Right?
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Enter Bubba, tweeting about his Master (updated)
One of the defining rituals of my young life was watching the Masters with my father, who was almost as good a golfer as he was a Baptist pastor and hospital chaplain. I drove home from college several times to keep that ritual intact.
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The controversial art of Thomas Kinkade
It was clear, this weekend, that the major West Coast newspapers didn’t expect the controversial (yes, I used that word deliberately) artist Thomas Kinkade to die at 54 years of age. Thus, the newsrooms did not have pre-written obituaries about the self-proclaimed “painter of light” ready to update and publish.
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Tim Tebow's plans for Easter 'mass'
That Tim Tebow guy is something else. You would think with all of the New York City media following him around these days, that it would be hard for him to sneak off and make some kind of radical change in his religious life.
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52 percent of reporters: Media poor on religion news
You know it’s sad when both the general public (57 percent) and reporters (52 percent) agree that the media does a poor job explaining religion to the broader public. And then two-thirds of the public think religious coverage is scandal-driven, compared to 30 percent of journalists who say the same thing, according to a new study from the Knight Program in Media and Religion at USC and the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron.
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