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There’s a tangible quality of gloating in Michael Powell’s Washington Post story about the public dispute between Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry and his 24-year-old son, Jamiel, who has outed himself in Out magazine.
Madonna’s interest in Kabbalah has guaranteed regular coverage — if not always of Kabbalah itself, then at least of how it affects this celebrity’s life. The latest bulletins: Madonna has allowed a distance to develop with her longtime best friend, actress Debbi Mazar; and though Madonna will perform on Sundays in the U.K. during her worldwide Re-Invention tour, she’s declining to perform on Friday evenings, in observance of Shabbat.
Time and Newsweek devote stories this week to Prince, and both note in passing that his faith as a Jehovah’s Witness has dialed back his earlier obsessions with sex.
It’s difficult to decide who is more insufferable when Deborah Solomon of The New York Times Magazine interviews former nun Karen Armstrong, author of A History of God and, most recently, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness.
A friend of this blog, columnist Rod Dreher of the Dallas Morning News, has quietly raised an important issue over at the paper’s editorial page blog.
Christianity Today has posted (and others, such as Poynter.org, have quickly linked to) a Tony Carnes story about the behind-the-scenes efforts being played by the Christian journalists in mainstream media who are close friends with former USA Today reporter Jack Kelley. The key lines are:
Jeffrey Rosen’s lengthy profile of John Ashcroft in the April Atlantic is testimony to what makes this magazine essential reading. Let Vanity Fair propagate the urban legend about Ashcroft’s fear of calico cats and express its horror that Ashcroft’s father once anointed him with Crisco. Rosen has better work to do: Engaging Ashcroft as a politician and a thinker.
Talking about yourself at length can be a troubling habit, but Spalding Gray managed to turn it into an art form that transcended mere self-absorption.
