So when it comes to Bible Belt religiosity, is the unique glass that is the city of Asheville, N.C., half empty or half full?
So close to a sane prayer wars story
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The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
There’s a scandal — A BIG ONE, BABY! — brewing in America’s churches. I know because I read it in The News Journal of Wilmington, Del., which featured in-depth coverage Sunday of the problem of church embezzlement.
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Put that cup of coffee down
I started to put this post up this morning but decided that it was not worth the risk. I did not want people spewing their coffee onto their keyboards.
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An important Cordoba distinction
You can oppose something and still think it shouldn’t be opposed by the government. Many people seem to have trouble with this distinction and its corollaries. The media tend to have trouble with this distinction because many journalists consider the provoking of government action as a good metric of success for their rabblerousing or reporting. But it’s true — you can oppose things and still think they should be legal.
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The Rev. Al Sharpton, minus the religion
Standing in a gift shop line at the Memphis International Airport on Friday, I spotted a familiar face, one I hadn’t seen in a while. There he was right in front of me — the Rev. Al Sharpton. Not in person, mind you, but staring at me from the cover of Newsweek magazine.
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So is she a priest or not?
As I have mentioned many times in GetReligion posts, the Baltimore Sun is the newspaper that lands in my front yard every morning (I get the Washington Post at work) and, as you would expect, the former copy desk man in me has learned a few things about my local newspaper.
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WP: Got religion? Get terrorism
The Washington Post had a story about a Virginia native son charged with joining a terrorist group that was well-written and filled with lots of details. But came up short nonetheless.
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Nothing to see here, move along
Last year, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted to change its doctrine to allow gay clergy in committed sexual relationships. The Associated Press ran a story about one of the consequences of that vote:
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Faith-based reporting
Some reporters just react to events and press releases. Others do a good job of keeping the big picture in mind.
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