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The British continue to be haunted by reports of terrorist plots. However, there was an important twist in one of the recent stories and, ever since, I have been watching to see if journalists will dig into a crucial detail.
In his annual State of the Union address last night, President Bush did not let the absence of former chief speechwriter and Wheaton College graduate Michael Gerson keep him from talking about religion. Bush has been accused of allowing Gerson to slip in “code words” and phrases that allow him to secretly pander to America’s religious right, but this time Bush’s religiously oriented words caught the attention of a different audience.
People ask me that question all of the time, usually in the midst of a conversation — face to face or online — that goes something like this.
I have heard variations of this statement many times and have heard it on the lips of many different kinds of Jewish believers — the most controversial issue in modern Judaism is God.
The other day I chided some conservative Episcopalians — loyal GetReligion readers, even — for being so upset about a feature story in The Washington Post about the origins of the war between conservative Anglicans at Truro Episcopal Church and The Falls Church in Northern Virginia and liberal leaders of the national Episcopal Church establishment.
You can’t be a member of an Antiochian Orthodox Christian parish for very long — at least not one with strong ethnic roots — without learning that it isn’t easy to turn Arab names into names written in English.
