So a man named John Stott died last week. Sure, he was no Amy Winehouse, but the English pastor, theologian, intellectual and author was kind of a big deal for global evangelicalism.
Evangelist blowhards
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GetReligionistas hit a perfect storm
It’s summer and, at some point, people’s lives are going to line up wrong, schedules are going to go crazy and the result is a perfect storm that threatens to shut things down.
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Another loner, following his own faith?
So what do we really know, at this point, about Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo and his attempted attack on Ft. Hood?
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Seeing the ghosts in a prison hospice
Every now and then, someone in our comments pages accuses your GetReligionistas of arguing that the way to improve religion-news coverage in the mainstream press is to have more religious believers invade America’s newsrooms. After all, “get religion” is a Bible Belt phrase for someone having a conversion experience of some kind.
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Crystal Cathedral confusion
You might remember some reports earlier this month that the Crystal Cathedral megachurch in California had ousted the Rev. Robert H. Schuller from its board and before the reports seemed to backtrack. We have a new report today from the Associated Press that the Crystal Cathedral has restored the voting rights of its founder on the church’s governing board. Unfortunately, the early report tells us very little about the decision, offering us about this much:
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What he said (about Norway)
At this point, I think most journalists have reached the point that they know that Anders Behring Breivik (a) has self-identified as a “Christian,” (b) yet he also made it clear that he is not a Christian believer, in terms of beliefs and practice and (c) that it is bizarre to call him a “fundamentalist,” in any historic sense of the word.
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Skirting at edges of faith
Even better, stories about people who hit rock bottom and find their way out of the pit appeal to me.
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Thanking God for that smokin' hot wife
Stop the presses. A pastor has prayed for his “smokin’ hot wife.” Truly this is a story made for YouTube, Twitter, blogs, Google+, Facebook, you name it.
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From Arne Fjeldstad: Belief? Ideology? Faith?
EDITOR’S NOTE: GetReligion readers may not know the byline of Arne H. Fjeldstad, unless they have clicked through to the Media Project website on our left sidebar.
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