Southern Baptists are meeting in convention in Indianapolis this week. You may have read about it, which is a good thing.
Conservatives vs. Fundamentalists
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Hot, hot, 25-year-old Baptist trend
Roughly a quarter century ago, people — academic people — started paying serious attention to what were called “superchurches” or “megachurches.” The goal was to learn more about why some churches grew and others did not.
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Pounding the polygamy beat
When Texas judge issued an order Monday allowing the parents in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to begin picking up their children, I noticed that the CNN headline was:
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Outreach for atheists
As a believer, I am not quite sure how a nonbeliever would react to Thursday’s story in the Philadelphia Inquirer about an interstate billboard intended to reach out to atheists and nonbelievers in the area. See here how the story introduces the billboard:
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Religion and changing Times
There are few things that journalists in Washington, D.C., like to talk about more than this subject — journalists in Washington. I am sure that this surprises GetReligion readers, especially those inclined to belief in the utter depravity of man.
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More theology, please
When my wonderful wife first told me about the mother fighting a church’s legal ban on her autistic son attendance at Catholic Mass, I worried the news coverage would be rather shallow. On Sunday, Dave Kolpack of the Associated Press was able to publish a longish well developed update of this ongoing story that has important Catholic theology at its heart.
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Warning: Lubavitchers are coming
Conflicts between the various streams of American Judaism have always fascinated me, all the way back to my graduate school days at the University of Illinois in Urbana. There are so many parallels with similar conflicts between traditional and liberal Christians, between pre-modern doctrines and the believers who are rooted in the modern and, I guess, the postmodern.
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How to cover the Womenpriests
One of the biggest problems that your GetReligionistas face week after week can be stated this way: We know that many problems on the religion beat would vanish if reporters had more time to write and were given longer story lengths.
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Obama's latest pastor problems
What do you think of the media coverage of the latest religious news being made by and around Sen. Barack Obama?
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