Anyone who has followed religion coverage in the mainstream press in recent decades should be familiar with the byline of Don Lattin.
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The great Gray Lady flunks Mass math
One of the overarching story lines in the mainstream coverage of the new English translation of the Mass is that the critics of the new translation (who, thus, are the defenders of the old, more casual “dynamic equivalence” translation that it has replaced) are the true defenders of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
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Tick, tick, tick ... Mass confusion update
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Pod people: Decoding "Christian college"
Greetings from the mountains of North Carolina, where the big news is that the library is closed. Thus, this “Pod people” update comes to you care of the free wifi in the wonderful Hilltop Restaurant in beautiful downtown Burnsville. Let’s hear it for diners with wifi AND multiple items the Orthodox can eat in Nativity Lent!
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Get ready for big twist in Mormon coverage
As Mitt Romney inches closer to the GOP nomination, we are nearing the point at which the mainstream press — especially Comedy Central — begins to realize that it’s time to cover a different Mormon story.
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How do you track a "lone wolf" terrorist?
I confess that I am fascinated with several journalistic mysteries related to the case of the would-be Manhattan bomber, Jose Pimentel, a.k.a. Muhammad Yusuf, a.k.a. Osama Hussein.
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Define "religious campus," please
If I have learned anything in my two decades as a professor in Christian higher education, it is this. There is no one approach to “Christian” higher education.
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That Apostolic Old Catholic Church of whatever
As far as I can tell, just by reading the story that ran in the newspaper that lands in my front yard, the nonprofit Emmaus Center that works with the homeless in nearby Glen Burnie is a small, but vigorous ministry that does wonderful work.
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NYTs shows admirable restraint, this time
As strange as it sounds, I think it’s time to offer praise to the editors at The New York Times for showing admirable restraint in their early coverage of Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez of Idaho Falls.
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