Time‘s Bonnie Rochman says pastor John Voelz “was down with Twitter before most people knew it was a proper noun.”
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Keeping up with the "none" crowd
I meant to put a link up to this fascinating little essay earlier, but forgot in the blitz that is the final week of the semester at the Washington Journalism Center.
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We need a better torture discussion
Yesterday we saw quite a bit of coverage of new Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life analysis which had — to the many who read it splashed across the interweb, cable television, and newspapers — some shocking results. Here’s CNN, for instance:
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Black flag flying in Dallas (updated)
This is certainly a day of mourning for journalists who know anything about the history of religion-news coverage in the mainstream press.
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Stoned soul pastors?
As “old media” seek to reach new audiences through the use of online technologies, we’ve seen journalists, like the Boston Globe’s Michael Paulson develop blogs (his is “Articles of Faith”). Sometimes these are a way of posting less formal comments on a topic. Sometimes they offer another place to discuss issues that journalists can’t fit into the traditional news hole.
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Ch-ch-ch-changes in pews (saith Pew)
There are times when I really feel the pain of the brilliant folks who work with the polling and research division of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
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Generational generalities
What is a religion story when it surfaces in the Style section of the New York Times? Let’s add another layer of complexity: what if that story is told as part of an ongoing series that aims to chronicle a generation through story-telling and personal reflection?
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Warping the Anglican wars
Back in the 1980s, when I was at the Rocky Mountain News, I covered the long legal battle between St. Mary’s Parish and the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado.
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Post-Christian or polarized?
The debate about Newsweek’s cover story of a few weeks ago by editor Jon Meacham, “The End of Christian America,” continues to intrigue journalists both across the pond (as noted earlier this week) and over here. When an opinion column addresses a topic we’ve covered (numerous times) then we consider it worth a mention.
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