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This Sunday’s Washington Post carried a relatively long inside-page article on the growth of home churches. I have quite a few beefs about this article, written by Michael Alison Chandler and Arianne Aryanpur, primarily that the reporters missed a key facet of Christianity that is encompassed in Matthew 18:20: Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
The Washington Post had an interesting story on Sunday about Latino immigrants converting to Islam. I find conversion stories fascinating, and I wish newspapers would do more of them. It makes for very good copy.
Here is a story that has been hanging around in my laptop for some time now, just bugging me from last week into this one.
To the sophisticated readers of the New York Times, this article acts as a warning: your Major League Baseball games could soon be infiltrated by religion! To others it raises the often-asked question of whether Christians in America will succumb to the “fine and potentially dangerous line” of mixing Jesus and marketing, as a friend said to me recently.
It has been hard to know what to write about the news coverage of the mysterious and tragic case of the switched identities of Taylor University students Whitney Cerak and Laura VanRyn.
People keep asking me why I refer to Roman Catholics as “Roman” Catholics instead of just “Catholics.” David Haldane’s story from the Los Angeles Times is one good example of the many uses of the C-word.
Want to watch some reporters wade into really deep church-state waters and, as far as I can tell, keep their facts straight?
The Los Angeles Times ran a story the other day called “Morality on a Slippery Slope” that was about life, death, beauty, adventure, courage and, most of all, life-and-death moral choices.
I am still thoughtfully tugging on my beard as I follow the latest development in the continuing saga of HolyOffice and his alleged links to GetReligion and, well, me.
