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The Los Angeles Times has a pretty off-the-rack news feature in print today about the Rev. Mike Huckabee and his ongoing “miracles happen” campaign for president, vice president, syndicated talk-show host, Rolling Stones bass player or whatever.
Remember that little discussion of “theodicy” that we had last weekend? This is actual a topic that journalists, as a rule, do not mind digging into from time to time. They enjoy putting God in the dock whenever there is a great tragedy, especially natural disasters.
I’m back in this forum, at the request of tmatt, just long enough to kick off a retrospective celebration of GetReligion’s fourth anniversary. Terry has asked us all to list the five favorite posts we’ve written in this site’s history, so cue John Coltrane.
Did you hear the one about the Super Bowl fans who crashed at the monastery? This is no joke. But it is an amusing, if unserious, story in the The New York Times.
The January/February issue of Psychology Today features a 5,000 word story, ostensibly on clergymen who lose their faith. While you have to get a copy of the dead tree version to read the whole thing, you can read the first few hundred words here. Having just finished writing a history of atheism for another magazine, I was excited to read the piece.
New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse is not a stranger to her paper’s public editor column. In October 2006, former public editor Byron Calame discussed the problems that arose out of a speech she gave at Harvard University the previous June. That was the speech where she expressed some of her liberal political views, including:
It is time to open up our Associate Press Stylebooks and read that entry, once again, about what is, sadly, one of the most popular words in modern journalism:
Last month CNN reporter Gary Tuchman had a great story about a prayer campaign called Light the Highway. The leaders of the campaign believe that Interstate 35 was possibly prophesied about in Isaiah 35‘s mention of a “holy highway.” Seeing the prayer group in action was impressive as they all fervently shouted out prayers over each other while walking around near I-35 in Dallas.
Attention, leaders of the Mike Huckabee paranoia team: Have you noticed that if you take a “vertical” metaphor and combine it with a “horizontal” metaphor, you would get something worse than a “vertical” metaphor alone. You would get — a cross!
