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Some of you out there on the religion beat may remember the name Christian Smith. He is the sociologist who taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who, among some scribes, is best known for writing an infamous Books & Culture essay, “Religiously Ignorant Journalists.”
Here’s a quick memo to the U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference and the Assemblies of God and the Democratic Party and lots of other people.
Let’s take a break from the Anglican wars for a moment, shall we (even though the battles keep raging on)?
This weekend, I went out of my way to praise a Washington Post story covering the Anglican property and doctrine wars here in the greater Washington area. The discussion of that post rolls on and you can follow that by clicking here.
Under normal conditions, we do not go out of our way to feature the work of outside writers. But in this case, there is this interesting commentary piece by an outside writer who used to be an inside writer.
This is the rare day in which a very important national story in The Washington Post and The Washington Times features the very same opening paragraph. It’s even a story that took place right here in the greater D.C.-Baltimore area and has national political implications.
As regular GetReligion readers will know, I have a thing about that vague word that mainstream journalists keep using to describe the Muslims that America likes, or that the journalists like, or that the Taliban dislikes, or something. That word, of course, is “moderate.”
