Well this is exciting news. The Epistle to the Hebrews, long a highly regarded part of the Christian canon, has also long been shrouded in mystery.
Breaking: Author of Hebrews discovered!
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Tattoos, sin and Sneetches
The Life Style section of the Washington Post has an interesting and well crafted story entitled “Rethinking the ink: Laser Tattoo removal gains popularity,” that reports on the flourishing tattoo removal industry. It discusses the current rage for tattoos among the American middle classes. What sets this story apart are the vignettes from those undergoing the painful and expensive procedure to have their body art removed.
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Hitler and the War on Christmas
I just disembarked from my first cruise and I’m in lovely Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. After a week in gently (or not-so-gently) rolling waters, I’m pretty happy to be on dry land. It was great to be out of communication for a week, but I missed my newspapers. So while I sit here waiting for my flight, I’m devouringtThis weekend’s Wall Street Journal, which included some fantastic articles. But one article, while terribly fascinating, had some holes.
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The Devil wears Yoga
The Daily Telegraph has been having a great deal of fun with a story about the former exorcist for the Diocese of Rome, Fr. Gabriele Amorth. The 86-year old priest had been invited to a film festival to speak before the screening of “The Rite,” a new release starring Anthony Hopkins.
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Transmasculine punkers are the new Judaism
Not too long ago, when the New York Times Sunday Magazine ran a supportive profile of a sex-positive sex-ed teacher, Rod Dreher wrote about the magazine’s obsession “with sex and sexuality, and of course always, always, always from a progressive point of view.” He listed some of the “sexual-liberationist” stories they’d done this year.
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About that new Mormon PR blitz...
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, either because you haven’t paid close attention or don’t live in one of the areas currently being bombarded with ads, but the Mormon church has launched a flashy new public relations campaign. The Mormon church running ads is not new, but an article by The New York Times’ Laurie Goodstein explains why this campaign is different:
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When ultra-Christian French fundamentalists attack
We joke about the overuse of “fundamentalist” to describe people that reporters don’t like, but I think we need a special award for whatever happened in this Associated Press report filed from Paris:
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Got faith? Hip Mormons without the religion
That was the stylish headline this week as the Old Gray Lady devoted 1,800 words to cool Mormons â as opposed to the regular, stuffy kind.
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What is an "observant" Jew?
Joshunda Sanders of the American-Statesman in Austin has a fascinating and compelling story about a local man. It begins with a great vignette:
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