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As you would imagine, one of the first things I did after returning home last night was cue up the Iowa coverage. For the most part, I surfed back and forth between CNN and Fox most of the night.
How long have I been away from my desk, out on the nation’s highways visiting various encampments of family members?
Back at a high point of the Anglican wars, your GetReligionistas could have written a post a week noting how mainstream journalists were chopping multiple decades off the timeline of the conflicts in the Episcopal Church.
The other day I openly confessed that, as a kid and throughout my life, I have always been a choir fanatic. What I hinted at in that piece I will now state openly: I was the kind of choir fanatic who was only interested in singing classical music, especially when dealing with sacred issues and texts.
Tragically, the top news story on this Christmas Day is another outbreak of violence against Christian believers, this time a wave of bombings and terrorism in the highly divided nation of Nigeria.
It’s rare to find a major story that makes liberals as well as conservatives nervous to the point that they hesitate to talk about it. Stories of this kind often fail to find their way into digital or analog ink.
At most schools (high school or college) there are band types, athletes, drama people, book fanatics, math/science geeks (and proud of it), etc., etc. Sometimes, these groups can overlap, such as the common book/band hybrid or the choir/drama type. I was a book/choir guy.
GetReligion readers who have been paying close attention during the last week or so are probably just shocked, shocked to know that the topic of this week’s “Crossroads” podcast is related to Christmas.
