Last night I followed a random tweet that linked to this report from Nina Shea at National Review‘s Corner:
Fear and loathing in Nigeria
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Katy Perry's Big Fat Hindu Divorce?
I know that the shelf life of the average Hollywood marriage is around five months or so. But I was still quite saddened by the news that Russell Brand had filed to divorce Katy Perry shortly after their first anniversary.
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Iowa's 'uneducated Jesus freaks'
My dad used to tell me a story about a man getting off of a train and asking the station manager for information about the town he’d just arrived in.
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New Year resolutions on the Godbeat
The beginning of a new year is as good a time as any to reflect on whether there are things we’d like to revise our change. As I’m typing this, commenter John M. (on another thread about the disappointing levels of Biblical literacy among media types and others) suggests, for instance:
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Behind the Israeli gender segregation story
Many of you have sent in articles about a dramatic religious dispute going on in Israel. And there have been many stories to look at. And if you read them all, you may begin to understand the situation. Here’s the beginning of the New York Times story datelined Beit Shemesh:
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All the Biblical literacy that's fit to print
A couple of weeks ago, we looked at the widely circulated error that William Butler Yeats was the author of Hebrews. The New York Times messed it up. So did the Associated Press. The BBC, too. All in a story about the death of George Whitman, a Paris bookstore owner.
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Persecuting Pakistani Christians
I keep thinking about all the American Christians who canceled church on Christmas Day. Terry wrote about the Iraqi Christians who’ve done the same. Except in their case, it’s under threat of death.
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Picturing polygamists
There was a Slate piece I wanted to look at last week but it didn’t make the cut. Then I came across this Salt Lake Tribune story that reminded me about it.
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Bible bans and 'Muslim' boycotts
I just read my eleventy billionth story on the controversy surrounding the show All-American Muslim. You’ve likely heard about the controversy. You’ve not likely seen the show, according to the Hollywood Reporter:
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