Allow me to indulge myself again in the world of faith and sports. Don’t worry, something important — politics — may show up.
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You take the good, you take the bad
The Los Angeles Times ran two stories about the California marriage proposition that deal heavily with religion. The first is a puff piece — a pro-same-sex marriage press release, really — about the gay weddings a rabbi has performed:
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Separation of church and football
I suppose there’s no reason that the Atlanta Journal Constitution should have better religion reporting than the average newspaper. But I rarely read anything noteworthy from the paper and sometimes the stories are really lacking.
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To pray or not to pray
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Catholics ponder abortion rights
The big religion story with voters this year has been white evangelicals. Will they remain supporters of pro-life Republican candidates or will they drift leftward? Despite the thousands of column inches devoted to the topic, it looks like they’ve remained largely in the GOP camp — although anything could happen.
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Conversion as an aside
James Fallows is a maddeningly prolific writer who makes it look easy to grind out thousands of words about China’s economic development, or alternatives in air travel or the finer points of software.
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Sins of a fallen civil rights hero
It was one of those ugly newspaper stories that makes you read and read until it becomes hard to turn away — kind of like seeing a car wreck happen in slow motion.
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Holy tongue in cheek?
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Absolute rubbish
In the Oct. 20 edition of Newsweek, longtime film critic David Ansen criticizes director Oliver Stone for not showing greater depth in his depiction of George W. Bush. Fair enough, until one stumbles across this double-barrel shotgun blast of boorish stereotyping:
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