I asked on Monday if it makes sense for journalists to use the word “Islamic” as an adjective to describe nouns such as “militants” or “terrorists.”
Hear no evil? (Spoken with a British accent)
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To flee or not to flee? A church question
Hey, it is the 4th of July, so I think that — other than filing my Scripps Howard News Service column for this week — I am going to take it a bit easy.
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Ignoring whispers about that seminary
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.
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When is 'Islamic' too broad a term?
If you sat down and tried to list the most important religion-news stories in the world right now, deadly conflicts linked to Islam and terrorism would have to be right at the top of the list.
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Obama, Democrats and young evangelicals
This may seem strange, but I think it would be useful to offer yet another look at Barack Obama’s sermon to his flock at the United Church of Christ convention.
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One essential and troubling religious truth
I was flipping through my copy of Newsweek the other day and came across a headline that almost made me swoon. To make matters more interesting for people who care about religion news, this little article was part of the magazine’s giant “What You Need To Know Now” spread.
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5Q+1 soundbites from Fred Barnes
Fred Barnes is a Christian conservative who runs an openly conservative magazine and attends a conservative Anglican parish. He also spends a lot of his time in the world of talk television, which means he is used to stating his views in short bursts of information and he doesn’t mind if people disagree.
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Obama's 'awesome' testimony
We have, I realize, already had a post by young master Daniel Pulliam about the coverage of Sen. Barack Obama’s recent speech to the national convention of his own mainline Protestant denomination, the United Church of Christ. Well here comes another one, because I think the emerging religious left (Religious Left?) is a major news story that deserves more coverage.
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Living without religion in Chicago
As it turns out, Spirit has nothing to do with religion. That’s the name of the in-flight magazine for the no-frills entrepreneurs at Southwest Airlines. (Actually, there are several magazines called Spirit, but that’s another issue.)
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