It’s time for an update from the GetReligionistas team here in cyberspace. There have been a few changes of location and routine — so here is the news.
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Mouw underlines a non-negotiable point
The other day, I raised a question or two — as I tend to do — about a Los Angeles Times story on an interfaith gathering of scholars to address scriptures that appear to “assert the superiority of one belief system over others.”
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As I lay dying
Last week religion reporter David Crumm was featured in our 5Q+1 series. He said that aging is the most important religion story the mainstream media just do not get. Gary Stern of The Journal News had a fantastic story that Crumm may want to check out. He followed a local hospice worker as she attended to the spiritual needs of the dying. Here’s how it begins:
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Lutherans in our midst
I was quite surprised to see the story Terry sent me from yesterday’s Los Angeles Times. Written by religion reporter K. Connie Kang, the story is about the holy day being celebrated today by millions of Lutherans, as well as Christians of various Protestant denominations: Reformation Sunday.
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A very inclusive and very small church
The Rev. Drew Phoenix of Baltimore is back in the news, as the United Methodist Church tiptoes back into the minefield of human sexuality.
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5Q+1 as David Crumm shifts into overdrive
GetReligion’s friend David Crumm sent email this week with the news that he will take a months-long leave of absence from the Detroit Free Press to develop a project called Read the Spirit. To call Read the Spirit a blog focused on religion news would be an understatement.
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What will that Big Ben guy do next?!
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Aren't those evangelicals just a riot?
One thing I don’t miss from Washington are the snarky, uninformative feature/news stories in The Washington Post‘s Style section. The latest and greatest from those pages, Sridhar Pappu’s report on the Values Voters Summit, is like a bowl of bad popcorn. Little informed, slightly amused but mostly bemused, I came away from this story learning more about Pappu’s day at the Hilton Washington than the latest plots from the religious right to take over America, or at least install a president to its liking in 2008.
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Revenge of the tmatt trio (again)
Last weekend, I was out in Southern California (just as the winds started to pick up) and had a chance to read the Los Angeles Times every day on dead tree pulp, rather than trying to find my way through the digital version online. That means you have a chance to pick through all of the pages of the physical newspaper and look for ghosts. Sure enough, there are lots of them. Feel those guilt pangs?
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