Few subjects inspire the whole “National Geographic visits the strange natives” school of Godbeat journalism quicker than monasticism.
A quick, shallow visit to Mount Athos
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Agnostic scout ousted because he's gay?
Anyone who has followed the tensions between gay-rights activists and the Boy Scouts knows that this is a rather tense and highly politicized situation, with obvious freedom-of-association implications for groups on the cultural left and right.
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Baylor grad pushes app for cheaters?
A long, long time ago, I was a journalism major at Baylor University, which, as you may know, is the world’s largest Baptist university. Baylor is located in Waco, Texas, which many folks in the Lone Star state like to call “Jerusalem on the Brazos.”
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WPost further expands borders of postmodern Catholicism
For several decades now, people linked to Jewish institutions have debated whether it is possible to be a Jew and, let’s say, a Southern Baptist, or a Buddhist, at the same time. This is even the kind of question that has made it to high courts in Israel.
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About that Archbishop Nienstedt conversion quote (updated)
It’s time for another update from the “framing religion as politics” beat, care of The Star Tribune, up in Minnesota.
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Get hexed? From our 'no comment' department
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Sun at it again: Ghost in McLouth's comeback
GetReligion readers, near and far, please pause and ponder the bizarre circumstances that were required to put me and Bobby “I like baseball in 100-degree-plus weather” Ross, Jr., in the same location — a pub near the Religion Newswriters Association meetings near the Beltway — on the night when his beloved Texas Rangers (who just couldn’t do their duty against the Oakland A’s) face my Baltimore Orioles, who are back in the playoffs after, what, 50 years?
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Warning! Mixing theology, canon law and ink is difficult
When it comes to the nuts and bolts of journalism, the task that terrifies my students the most is attempting to paraphrase the complicated words of experts into prose that can be understood by the proverbial average American sitting at his or her breakfast table with a cup of coffee.
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Define 'evangelical' ... Give three examples
Late one night last week, while I was attending a journalism conference in Kiev, I plunked myself down in the wifi zone in the hotel lobby and pounded out a quick post about at topic that your GetReligionistas have been discussing ever since the cyber-doors opened at this here weblog — the fact that hardly anyone knows what the word “evangelical” means.
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