A few weeks ago, a Twitter post from Tim Townsend, the award-winning religion writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, caught my attention.
Scared 'journalist' hides in a church, lives to write about it
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A sexual abuse story, complete with a rare glimpse of faith
As strange as it sounds, the goal of this post is to praise The Los Angeles Times for a page-one story focusing on a single case history linked to the decades of sexual abuse of children and teens by Catholic priests.
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Spot the ghost: An religion X factor for QB Russell Wilson?
While things are not going very well in his second playoff game with the Seattle Seahawks (writing at halftime), it’s pretty clear that the amazing success of the undersized, yet tough as nails, quarterback Russell Wilson has been one of the National Football League’s most amazing stories this year.
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Meet Christian financial guru Dave Ramsey, minus the faith
A decade ago, as a Tennessee-based religion and enterprise writer for The Associated Press, I profiled Dave Ramsey.
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Syrian sniper offers thoughts on life, death and faith
Anyone who has been to the Middle East, or who has spent much time talking to natives of that troubled region, knows that there is much more to its conflicts than religion.
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Foggy beliefs lead to church-state crisis in hospital
One of my graduate-school professors had a saying that summed up one of the central truths of church-state law in the United States of America. Your religious liberty, he liked to remind students, has been purchased for you by a lot of people with whom you would not necessarily want to have dinner.
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Faith, family, fastballs: Dale Murphy's Hall of Fame bid
He’s a man of character with old-fashioned values. He’s adored by his wife and eight â count ‘em, eight â children. He’s an all-around nice guy beloved by baseball fans.
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A big, vague ghost in the Ray Lewis reporting
If you are a pro-football fan, or a human being who is alive and breathing in greater Baltimore, then you are probably aware that today’s playoff game between the Ravens and the “Indianapolis Colts” is the final home game for Ray Lewis, perhaps the greatest inside linebacker to ever put on pads (and I say that as an old-school fan of Mike Singletary).
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Symbolic defeat for a Christian business in Maryland
After spending more than a week on the road, I returned home — as always — to find a large stack of ink-stained dead tree pulp that needed to be sorted a read. I refer, of course, to all the back issues of the newspaper that lands in my front yard.
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