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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.
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:
When I first heard about the investigation of the “D.C. Madam” and her infamous list of clients, I immediately had a sense of dread.
The very last Baptist congregation that I called home, on my road to the ancient church of the East, was Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C., which hails itself as an “ecumenical church” in the “Baptist tradition.”
Ruth Gledhill, the U.K. Times‘ religion correspondent, scored a fascinating and fantastic interview with Nigerian Anglican Archbishop Peter Akinola. She sat with him at his sparse office in Abuja and discussed the church in Nigeria, relations in the Anglican Communion, Islam, homosexuality and more:
The Washington Post summarized a new Pew Research Center survey that shows there are significant foundational shifts in Americans’ understanding of what constitutes marital happiness and success. In a front-page story on Sunday, reporter Donna St. George looked at the most substantial attitudinal change over previous years:
The other day, the Baltimore Sun ran a perfectly ordinary news profile of Father Robert F. Leavitt, who is leaving his post as president and rector of St. Mary’s University and Seminary after nearly three decades of leadership on that campus.
Both Time and Ken Auletta of The New Yorker devote considerable attention to Rupert Murdoch this week, as Murdoch tries to close in on purchasing The Wall Street Journal for $5 billion.
Right after the massacre at Virginia Tech, I wrote an emotional post in which I wondered aloud when the “religion shoe” was going to drop in this story.
