“Can one man build effective bridges between evangelical Christians and Chicago’s gay community?”
God & gays: BBC on the Marin Foundation
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Got news? Clock ticking louder in Iran
I’m still using Google News to search for mainstream news media reports on the fate of the Iranian pastor who faces the death penalty for being a Muslim apostate, even though he has never practice Islam.
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Missing religion for the trees
Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who became the first African woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize, died from cancer on Sunday. Here’s how the New York Times explained her significance in its obituary:
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Got news? One doomed Iranian pastor (ho hum)
Once again, we find ourselves in the parallel universe of alternative, advocacy, alternative, “conservative news.”
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Survey: media biased, inaccurate and immoral
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press put out the results of their latest poll on public opinion of the media. And the results weren’t too good. But, on the other hand, they weren’t all bad. Here’s how Pew put it:
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Did you hear about Obama's 'fiery' rhetoric?
Earlier this year, I complained about the lack of coverage surrounding President Barack Obamaâs confession of Christian faith at a pre-Easter Easter breakfast he hosted at the White House. I wrote:
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Mass confusion in Phoenix 2.0
It seems that the recent Arizona Republic news feature about Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted’s decision to require priests in his diocese to stop offering consecrated wine to the laity during most Masses stirred up so much debate that the newspaper decided to produce a sequel.
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Pod people: Baptists and Bachmann-district bullies
On this week’s Crossroads, host Todd Wilken and I talked about media coverage of a possible name change by the Southern Baptist Convention.
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Glowing Richard Dawkins in NYTs?
Writing a provocative, timely, compelling profile is tough. How do you write a profile without becoming enamored with the successful book sales, the dynamic speeches or the captivated audiences? You want to describe and elaborate on why an individual is so successful or effective in his or her work, so it’s difficult to remain completely objective.
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