Let’s say that there is a Republican president in office right now, one with ties to a somewhat doctrinaire form of Christianity.
Why did a conservative Catholic Raven skip White House visit? (updated)
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Baby Boomers are killing themselves. Why?
Tuesday’s front page of the Washington Post had a collection of interesting stories above the fold: “Justices uphold Md. law on DNA,” “For Hezbollah, a risky engagement in Syria,” a large and compelling photo of “Chaos in Turkey’s streets,” and “Why the sharp rise in suicides by boomers?” I’m not nearly so melancholy about the demise of the print news product as some I know, but this type of front page is what I love — happening upon interesting stories you may not have sought out online on your own.
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A Broadway revival that includes the classic hymn 'Blessed Assurance'
The other day, I wrote a post about the fact that many journalists struggle to understand, to be perfectly honest about it, the role that Christian faith plays in the African-American church. There is a tendency to see the black church as a political institution, and that’s that.
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When a pastor has an affair and nobody's talking
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Hey Washington Post: There's only one (gay) Islam? Really?
Anyone who has been paying attention to debates about the future of the Boy Scouts of America knows that, when it comes to issues linked to homosexuality, there is no one “religious” perspective that journalists need to cover. Even within individual religious traditions — such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the Roman Catholic Church — there are people who read the same texts and come to slightly different, or glaringly different, conclusions.
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Why can't press get religion, when covering black churches?
Let’s face it. The mainstream press really struggles when trying to cover life in African-American churches.
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The big questions facing that out gay Catholic priest
It is my experience, through my decades on the religion beat, that liberal Catholics genuinely love talking to mainstream news reporters.
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Hanging out with Sheryl Crow and her kids -- where?
While I have not lived in Nashville (yet), I have spent a lot of time there and know quite a bit about the town.
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Haunted story or not? On vampires, Satanism and murder
Day after day, the stunning story of young Morgan Lane Arnold has unfolded in the pages of The Baltimore Sun, with each revelation only making key elements of this bloody crime more and more mysterious.
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