This is, literally, a case of preaching to the choir and I know that.
Flash! Journalists don't get religion
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More quiet religious-liberty news
In case you have not heard, the U.S. State Department has a new ambassador at-large for international religious liberty. She is the Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook and, during her decades of ministry as a Baptist pastor and chaplain, she has had a solid history of activism on a number of interesting public issues.
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A rebel Anglican bishop in Zimbabwe
If generic New York Times readers know anything at all about Anglican bishops in Africa, surely they know that most of them are quite conservative on matters of faith and practice. For example, they are opposed to homosexual activity of any kind — a position that is very common on a continent in which their growing churches often directly clash with conservative Islam.
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Freudian typo of the year (nominee)
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Pod people: Oprah, mainline evangelist
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Barack Obama, secret Episcopalian?
It’s so easy to make mistakes on the religion beat, especially when covering someone as complicated as President Barack Obama.
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The strange case of tmatt and the twisted pronoun
As a journalism professor, one of the toughest challenges that I face is helping students learn how to avoid what I call “buried pronoun disease.”
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God, god and Oprah's good-bye
Click here if you want to read the dead-tree-pulp Washington Post story about the final show by Oprah Winfrey. Or don’t. It really doesn’t matter, because this story is about a television event — not a signpost event in the development of pop and/or civic religion in American culture. Ditto for this news report in the New York Times.
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Cutting edge synagogue-state clash
It would be hard to imagine a more apocalyptic battle between synagogue and state than the ballot-box battle that is unfolding in San Francisco over the right of Jews (and anyone else) to circumcise their newborn males. Now the battle is spreading down the left coast to Santa Monica.
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