Granted, 25 years is a rather long time, especially in the Internet age.
Pod people: Talking personal history on the religion beat
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In tsunami of Boston info, there are basic faith questions
As the drama keeps unfolding in and around Boston, it’s safe to say that journalists now face crucial decisions about the role of religion — specifically radical forms of Islam — played in the motives behind this act of terrorist.
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Is Ephesians 6 really about Thatcher's strength?
Whenever my Washington Journalism Center students start covering speeches and major public events, always I tell them that they face three major journalistic challenges. They have to:
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On Sarah Kliff's Washington Post mea culpa on Kermit Gosnell (a national story)
If you have been on Twitter in the past week or so, you probably know that our own M.Z. Hemingway recently wrote a post that noted:
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Let us attend: Waiting for a religion shoe to drop in Boston bombing
As you would expect, people were a bit tense last night on my commuter train from Union Station in Washington, D.C., back to Baltimore. If anyone was talking, they were talking about the Boston Marathon explosions and the other unexploded bombs found in that tense area.
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M-O-D-E-S-T: A key word for Annette the Catholic
As you would expect in a world that remains obsessed with all things Baby Boomer, the death of the ultimate Mouseketeer — that would be the always lovely Annette Funicello — drew quite a bit of mainstream media attention.
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That ghost in Dr. Ben Carson's, well, moral theology
The folks who edit and operate the newspaper that lands in my front yard are having a Devil of a time trying to figure out what to do with Dr. Ben Carson. Frankly, their struggles are beginning to remind me of their struggles to understand the role that the church plays in the lives of many African-Americans in the politically liberal state of Maryland.
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Some familiar religion-news questions, after 25 years
Several years ago, I realized that I was not really sure how long I had been writing the weekly “On Religion” column for the Scripps Howard News Service. As some of you may know, aging brains often struggle with detailed information of this kind (especially when the brain in question also deals with 100-plus emails every day).
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Memory eternal: The faith and times of McCandlish Phillips
If you wanted to know who John McCandlish Phillips was, as a New York Times journalist, all you really needed to do was listen to the words of other journalists. Here are two of my favorite quotes along those lines, drawn from a classic profile in The New Yorker (which is now behind a firewall, unfortunately).
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