I spent part of my day in Washington, D.C., at the annual convention of the Religion Newswriters Association. The topic? What in the world is going on with blogging?
What Michael Paulson said
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Wearing your Sunday best
When my husband and I were going through premarital counseling, our pastor shared guidelines on appropriate wedding day attire. It was easy enough for us to comply with.
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Life after the Press Club
The former pastor of Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama has slipped back into the news over the last couple of weeks for vastly divergent reasons. Last week the New York Post broke the story that the preacher had a sexual affair with an executive assistant at a Dallas church lead by one of Wright’s disciples. On the other hand, the Religion News Service is reporting that Wright is saying nice things about Obama in his sermons.
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From our 'no comment' department
Here’s the double-stack headline on a new Stuart Taylor “Open Argument” commentary at National Journal.
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Paranormal side of the tolerance coin?
The Religion Newswriters Association is currently meeting here inside the Beltway, which guarantees that somebody, from somewhere is going to release a boatload of new information about some trends in American religion.
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Cheers for (candid) talk on religious left
There are times when it seems as if the World Wide Web has always been around, like a public utility. But if you look at cyberspace in terms of journalism history, we are still very early in the transition to whatever the heckfire is going to happen next.
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Tongues, cartoons, news -- oh my (updated)
Cartoons are certainly not news items in the traditional sense of a news article or broadcast, but as we all know, cartoons can certainly make news. See to the right (or click on this link) to get an idea of what I am talking about.
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Obama courts the faithful
With the mainstream media’s obsession with Gov. Sarah Palin, they haven’t really had as much time to look at the other candidates in the race. But I wanted to look at a few stories coming out of the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama. The first is a report from the Roanoke Times. The report describes a series of small Democratic rallies with religious themes:
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Why we need foreign bureaus
Nothing makes you miss the former prevalence of overseas news bureaus like a really fantastic foreign service report. Emily Wax, who has moved from Africa to India, filed a personal but newsy account of the violence ravaging the state of Orissa.
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