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The Rt. Rev. Douglas LeBlanc and I did have a bit of a debate this week about religion in the latest edition of “The Time 100″ list of the movers and shakers on planet earth.
The Atlantic Monthly cover story on Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice — “Grand Illusions” — offers all of the inside details and broad, sweeping conclusions that one would expect.
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One of the hardest things to teach journalism students, I think, is to recognize the dangers present in what I called “buried pronouns.”
It’s interesting, whenever the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life releases a new study, to watch the ripples from that data spread out into the work of mainstream newsrooms that take religion news seriously.
If you know anything about modern video games, then you know what the term “first-person shooter” means.
Gentle readers, I am going to have to ask your patience for a few minutes as the former copy editor in me rages a bit. However, I have no idea what is going on at the moment at The New York Times‘ copy desk when it comes to handling the tricky issue of formal titles for clergy.
If Russell Chandler, retired from the Los Angeles Times, is one of the gold-standard names in traditional religion-beat work, then our second subject represents a much edgier style of reporting from the post-1960s alternative press. The work being done by Julie Lyons in her Bible Girl columns at the Dallas Observer represents a kind of neo-European, advocacy version of the Godbeat in modern niche media.
Yes, yes, yes, your friends at GetReligion got all the emails. We know that you saw Corey Kilgannon’s story in The New York Times about the Rev. Louis Braxton Jr. and his ministry to the “tranny” streetwalkers of Astoria, Queens.
