I’ve been out on the road for several days — my usual gig with the National College Media conference, among other things — and I let Nov. 1 sneak up on me.
Ch-ch-ch-changes (and that Polanski ghost)
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Lions and tigers and pagans -- oh my!
I don’t think I’ve written about paganism since I joined GetReligion. Hopefully this post will go over better.
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About Sarah Pulliam Bailey
I began reading GetReligion back in the day because my brother Daniel Pulliam (former GetReligion writer extraordinair) set my home page to the site. Little did I know I would end up writing for tmatt & co. one day.
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The unbroken circle
It hardly seems possible that it’s been a year since tmatt was giving me pointers on how to write for GetReligion. There was so much I had to learn — and although I’ve learned a lot, I haven’t learned everything, by any means. Sometimes I read the work of my GetReligion colleagues and wonder how they make it appear so easy.
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Killing in the name of ...
Did you hear about the attempted honor killing a couple of weeks ago in Arizona? I haven’t seen many stories about it. Tmatt looked at the ghosts in some of the coverage a week or so ago but It’s clearly not major news, although national media outlets have begun running their traditional one (or fewer!) stories on the matter. For the life of me, I can’t understand why stories about honor killings or attempted honor killings aren’t major news. This is a concept so very foreign and horrifying to most readers of American media and yet these stories are routinely underplayed. Now maybe the mainstream media doesn’t need advice on how to get more readers/viewers/listeners, but I think that when a father runs down his daughter with two tons of steel over some perceived slight to his honor, that’s newsworthy.
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Vatican slams Halloween (not really)
All together now, religion-beat pros (and fans), let’s chant this together: L’Osservatore Romano does not equal the Vatican.
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Piety + punk = Muslim “taqwacore”
If you like articles that take readers on journeys to places where faith and culture intersect in new and unexpected ways, then you’ll enjoy reading Kate Shellnutt’s Chicago Sun-Times story, “Young Muslims use punk to loosen their religion.”
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America, morality, Polanski, yada, yada
Every now and then, one of your GetReligionistas reads a story — usually about a controversy tied to culture and morality — and then says, in his or her heart of hearts, “You know, religion ought to be in here somewhere.”
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I trust when dark my road
One of my close friends — and fellow St. Louis Cardinals fans — is a wonderful Lutheran pastor who suffers from clinical depression. Earlier this year, he published a book titled “I Trust When Dark My Road.” The book (which you can download for free here) allows the reader to look deep into the heart, mind and soul of someone suffering mental illness. Many Americans, myself included, have depression or other related problems. And even for me it’s somewhat difficult to think that it afflicts pastors — as if wearing a stole somehow protects you from the problem.
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