The Detroit Free Press had a rather bizarre article about the intersection of religious views and politics.
Don't discuss religion and politics
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Missing subtlety in the culture wars
Sometimes being witty gets in the way of being thorough and nuanced. Dana Milbank, The Washington Post‘s ubiquitous page 2 columnist, wrote a lament Tuesday on what he described as the faded culture wars in the wake of Sen. David Vitter’s scandal and other supposedly connected events.
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Is there more to Christianity than politics?
Last week Michael Luo of The New York Times had a fascinating piece about the public piety of Sen. Hillary Clinton. After decades of losing socially conservative religious voters, Democrats are noticeably reaching out to religious folks. It’s wise for media outlets to track and analyze the move.
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Having a bad apostolic-orders week
What a week for the Anglicans or the Episcopalians or whoever is near you who claims ancient ties to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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One nation under god(s)
I’m very interested in civil religion, as some of you may have picked up. People who share my confession of faith tend to dislike the mixture of politics and worship since it violates our understanding of the sacredness of worship. Besides, civil religion never seems to work out for us as we’re always outnumbered by other religious groups.
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5Q+1 visits the ubiquitous Jeff Sharlet
Many years ago I wrote an angry letter to the editor of Rolling Stone, doubting whether that magazine ever would give serious attention to religion and believers. I am glad that, as a contributing editor for both Rolling Stone and Harper’s, Jeff Sharlet has proven me wrong.
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AP: Conservative Christians 'revile' China
China is giving Christian missionaries the boot in advance of the 2008 Olympic Games, according to an Associated Press article by Alexa Olesen. It’s a pretty straightforward story about more government oppression of religion in the world’s most populous nation.
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You've got porn!
Churches have leased space in their bell towers to cell-phone companies for several years now, but the Chicago Tribune reports on a new twist in that discussion: whether such towers would transmit pornographic signals:
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Cynical coverage of the 'religion-industrial complex'
Jacques Berlinerblau, an associate professor and program director at Georgetown University, has launched an On Faith column on the “religion-industrial complex.”
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