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You can’t be a member of an Antiochian Orthodox Christian parish for very long — at least not one with strong ethnic roots — without learning that it isn’t easy to turn Arab names into names written in English.
Merry fifth day of Christmas, everyone. I still have a lot of Christmas coverage left in my email inbox, and I hope to get to some of it in the midst of my travels.
The Religion Newswriters Association has released its annual poll to determine the top 10 religion-news events and trends of the year. It is, in my opinion, a very ordinary year with an all-too-familiar blend of politics, Episcopal sex, Middle East warfare, one tragedy and one (or often two) events involving the pope.
First things first, now that some of us have reached the festive 12-day season we’ve all been waiting for — Merry Christmas! This raises another question for me, a media question covered in a nice way the other day by a feature in the Los Angeles Times.
Writing about atheism here at GetReligion would seem somewhat oxymoronic since we are well, a blog about the media’s coverage of religion. But even atheists have a degree of faith since it takes faith to believe that there is in fact no God out there.
If you are like me, you are reading all of the Christmas Wars stories (hey, I do have a degree in church-state studies) but you are also getting sick of them. Sick. Of. Them.
In the past year or so, there has been all kinds of mainstream coverage — like this and especially this — of Hollywood professionals trying to find out how, in the post-Passion-earthquake world, to market mainstream movies to the so-called “Christian market.” This story has actually been out there for quite some time, but it still seems to be hot.
I am not a regular presence at the theater or a frequent reader of theater reviews. So it goes without saying that I know little about writing a good review of acting or singing. With that said, I thought the New York Times article on singer/actress Kristin Chenoweth was a half-decent read.
For the second time in a week, I am about to get on an airplane and head out to the Los Angeles area, which means testing the battery life on my iPod video again.
