For years now, I have been saying that the two most controversial subjects in American religion are sex and salvation.
Many truths, many paths, many gods?
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Christ-free Christmas? Don't blame Islam
I heard something interesting last summer while I was over in Oxford helping lead a seminar on press freedom and blasphemy.
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Honest weblog headline of the day
Over at the always essential Christianity Today weblog, Ted Olsen kind of hit a wall and put up this headline for all of those who are paying attention to religion news this week:
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Pews, politics and Virginia's "grits line"
As I have explained before, I rarely get to linger over a dead-tree-pulp edition of The Washington Post, the newspaper that looms over the city in which I work. The reason is that I live in an old blue-collar suburb just south of Baltimore, one that is not considered worthy of Post home delivery, like the high-class suburbs not far from here.
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Wanted: One "Passion Playbook"
For the second time in a week, I am about to get on an airplane and head out to the Los Angeles area, which means testing the battery life on my iPod video again.
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Wacky pastors fret over Ahmadinejad
It’s a topic that comes up every now and then when mainstream reporters try to figure out the foreign policy implications of all of those bizarre evangelical beliefs about Israel and the end of the world.
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Slicing up that old pizza guy
OK, football fans, is everyone else as tired of the horrid Domino’s Brooklyn Style Pizza ads as I am? If I hear “Fold it like a man!” one more time I think I am going to give up pizza for Nativity Lent or something radical like that.
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Someone's mocking, Lord, kumbaya!
Every now and then, it’s OK for experienced, skilled journalistic specialists to let their hair down and have a little fun.
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Gasp! There are pro-life moderates?
The mainstream press is still working its way through the “what it all means” stage. Here is The New York Times trying out different ways of saying that the new Democrats who gave their party the Hill majority are not “bright blue.”
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