Oh my! We may have a Nativity Lent miracle on our hands!
Marco Rubio and the media's curiously inconsistent approach to science
I wonder if any of our readers have read Thomas Nagel’s new book Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False. I’ve been reading the reviews and they’re fascinating. The New Republic review says Nagel, a devout atheist, has “performed an important service with his withering critical examination of some of the most common and oppressive dogmas of our age.”
CNN on the superstar Stanleys: The ties that blind
Suffice it to say that I started working my way onto the religion-news beat in the late 1970s, precisely the era in which the Southern Baptist Convention — the mega-denomination in which I was raised, as part of a family active on all levels of SBC life — veered into a civil war that took very few prisoners.
Tough to understand Tufts evangelicals
The Boston Globe reported last week on an evangelical student group at Tufts University facing the potential loss of its funding:
Pod people: Red America and Bible Belt atheists
On the latest Issues, Etc. podcast, host Todd Wilken and I discuss my recent post on a Washington Post story that featured a red-state American in her natural habitat.
Preachers and politics: Be careful out there folks ...
Today’s digest from the Religion News Service (sign up for this very helpful service, if you have not already done so) points readers toward a very important story in the wake of this year’s White House race. Come to think of it, this story has been highly relevant in every single national election year since, oh, 1973. Here is the short RNS blurb for this story:
Ready, set, barf: An evangelical football feature
Got news? Obama as Antichrist prequel draws silence
Let me state, right up front, that I would be the first news-media critic to argue that mainstream press folks are too quick to take a single statement by a single, often obscure, conservative preacher and then turn it into a national story about how all Fundamentalist or even evangelical Christians think about a given topic. In fact, I once went so far as to argue, at Poynter.org, that it was time for journalists to pay less attention to the Rev. Pat Robertson for precisely this reason.
Red-state American in her natural habitat
I gotta admit: Just a few sentences into this Washington Post feature on post-election Red America and I was already worried.
