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Some of you may remember that, while stuffed inside my shuttered concrete and metal fortress West Palm Beach fortress, I sent out a missive the other day on the theological implications of being hit multiple times by hurricanes in the space of a few weeks.
” … in Communion with the U.S. rebel alliance and not the empire based in the denominational headquarters in New York City?”
Before we move on to some serious news articles about the conflict in the worldwide Anglican Communion, let us first pay a brief visit to the community announcement columns of the Louisville Courier-Journal.
In the final chaotic moments of the frat-classic “Animal House,” a well-endowed young woman with very little on is catapulted from a parade float and just happens to fly through the open window of a young boy who is secretly reading “Playboy,” landing safely on his bed. Stunned by this miracle, the boy looks to the heavens and says, “Thank you, God.”
I think it was about 10 years ago that I first heard traditional Jewish and Christian contacts in Hollywood start talking about the new movie era of grand slams and singles and the implications of this trend for religion in mainstream film.
As anyone who has been near a good Catholic blog today knows, there’s big news in the story of Deal Hudson, the outspoken conservative who used to be active in White House efforts to woo traditional Catholics. Veteran religion writer Julia Duin at the Washington Times has broken the story that Hudson has been forced out as publisher at Crisis.
Well, what do you know? For all of its weaknesses, it does seem that this experimental little blog must be doing something right. At least, the principalities and powers at the World Wide Web’s most prominent interfaith free-for-all think so.
At first glance, it was a simple hard-news lead for a follow-up story on the deadly path of the remnants of hurricane Ivan into the misty blue ridges of Western North Carolina. Reporters Kristin Collins, Michael Biesecker, Josh Shaffer and Andrea Weigl of the Raleigh News and Observer wrote:
