St. Louis Post-Dispatch religion writer Tim Townsend announced some welcome news yesterday:
'We hear you, and now we are reaching out to you'
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Was Zwingli Catholic?
So a radical, anti-Roman Catholic, gay activist group called, charmingly, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence gravely disrespected the church. Two men from the activist group — dressed in white face, garish makeup and nuns’ habits — received the sacrament of Holy Communion a few weeks ago from San Francisco’s top Catholic official.
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Anti-pastor Field Negro's online pulpit
Talk about a loaded image. The Column One feature in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times focuses on how the World Wide Web has raised up some new African-American voices, some new points of view on politics, culture and, of course, religion.
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Great teachers are everywhere ... not
As a college teacher, I really care about trends in all of the schools that send me students — schools both public and private.
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Brownback gets his media attention
Most second- and third-tier presidential candidates fuss about a lack of media attention and the mainstream media’s general tendency to treat their campaigns as equaling the significance of a stalk of corn in an Iowa cornfield. The social conservative Sen. Sam Brownback wouldn’t hesitate to blame his lack of political traction on the media’s failures to take his candidacy seriously.
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Hannah, why do you weep?
Ann Rodgers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is a prolific religion writer. Using the hook of a seminar scheduled at a Roman Catholic seminary, Rodgers looks at the pain endured by religious adherents suffering from infertility.
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Tearing through a New York Times
A few years ago, I had the joy of watching Dr. Martin Marty tear up a stack of newspapers during a forum (here’s a column on that) about religion and the news at the University of Nebraska.
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MTV: Rowling answers God question
Many theories have been tossed around for why Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling avoided discussing religion and her books. One of the more popular theories was that she didn’t want to be typecast or shunned for any personal views that could affect books sales.
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Simon: God and caring for the homeless
As part of a Los Angeles Times series on homelessness, faith and values reporter Stephanie Simon spent some time in Denver looking at a government program that involves a Democratic mayor and a challenge to the area’s churches, synagogues and mosques to work with the 600 or so homeless families in the community in a mentorship program begun two years ago.
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