Hey GetReligion readers! Is there anyone else out there that really, really likes the P.D. James novel called “The Children of Men”?
P.D. James, call your service!
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Asked and Answered
There may be hundreds of millions of Buddhists in the world, but pick up an American newspaper and you’re much more likely to read about Uma Thurman than her father.
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Context ex nihilo
There’s an Associated Press story today that is equal parts interesting and frustrating. The set-up for “Texas church bans child’s photograph of Passion,” is certainly intriguing:
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The good book of smut?
On the surface, a recent report by the San Antonio Express-News on an atheist student organization urging classmates to trade in religious texts for pornography seems harmless enough.
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St. Patrick didn't drive errors out of journalism
In his thought-provoking essay “Reclaiming St. Patrick’s Day,” Christianity Today‘s Ted Olsen talks about how Christians could emphasize the day by highlighting issues related to the great saint (e.g. fighting human trafficking, celebrating multi-ethnic communities and incarnational ministry). Here’s how it begins:
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About Merlin's Mormonism...
It was my experience growing up LDS that Mormons have always been eager to point out successful Mormon celebrities where they could. The blog Waters of Mormon explains this phenomenon well:
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Shameless pre-Oscar plug for moi
Surely, I was one of the last pop-culture-friendly religion writers on planet earth to get around to writing about Avatar.
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Christian rockstars are real
Apparently missing from “The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge“, and from the pop culture background of the paper’s music critics, editors and copy editors, is any perspective about the pervasiveness of Christian artists in the annals of popular music.
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'Blind Side' paranoia in full flight
In honor of the upcoming Oscar bash, let me jump in here with another post on the mainstream media coverage of the religious element in “The Blind Side.”
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