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An interesting problem has developed here in the blogosphere. I have no idea whether it has affected any of our readers. In fact, I do not know if it has prevented us from having any readers and I have no idea how to find out whether it has or not.
Maybe it’s the fact that I was raised as a Southern Baptist preacher’s son, but I have never been very comfortable with the “F word.” No, not “Fundamentalist.” The other one.
When journalists want to know who “evangelical Christians” are and what they believe, one of the first people they call is the quotable pollster George Barna.
Let me be the first — chicken in cheek — to chide The Arizona Republic for going with an Associated Press report instead of assigning one of its own reporters to cover such a fascinating Godbeat story in its own backyard. I look forward to the photos and coverage of the actual event.
Is it possible to spot a God-beat ghost while listening to the radio? While driving in rush-hour traffic on I-95?
This may seem like a strange thing to do, but I want to encourage readers who are working journalists to do something after they have read Doug’s latest post on music tends in the church. Google the following words and then hang on — “worship wars.”
Will the release of a paperback edition of “The Da Vinci Code” be a sign of the End Times? Will everyone who refuses to read Dan Brown’s anti-Bible masterwork be automatically raptured?
While this may seem out of place on a God-beat blog, let me call attention to a new study released by the human-rights think tank Freedom House. It’s called “Freedom of the Press 2004: A Global Survey of Media Independence” and was released to mark the upcoming World Press Freedom Day on May 3.
