So it seems there is “closed Communion,” “open Communion,” “open, open Communion” (Communion without baptism) and then there is “World Wide Web open Communion.”
WWW open Communion
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Wide, wide open Holy Communion
Regular readers at this weblog are probably aware of the fact that each of my computers — at home and work — contains an email folder labeled “GetReligion guilt.” It contains religion-beat articles that I really intended to write about, but things, kept, getting, in, the, way.
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Return of the Womenpriests
Congratulations are in order for Jessica Rowley, a St. Louis woman on the verge of giving birth to her first child. The pregnancy was deemed newsworthy by a St. Louis alternative paper called the Riverfront Times:
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Reporting stuff we already know
The Detroit News and Baltimore Sun recently produced two shockingly non-news worthy articles about the role or religion in this 2008 presidential election.
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Judging God v. Mammon
Could the Sunday article in The Washington Post‘s Style section on families turning from money to faith have been told without mentioning religion at all?
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To pray or not to pray
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Bringing the corporate culture to churches
Back when I worked in retail management, secret shoppers were the bane of our existence. The corporation would hire people to come in and rate our service, orderliness, appearance, etc. You never knew when they were coming and their results seemed to vary wildly. You’d be praised on a day when you knew you and your team weren’t giving their best and rated viciously on another day when you were slammed and keeping everything going despite numerous obstacles.
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Exiting the thriving evangelical pews?
If you’ve been following our coverage of the debates about Gov. Sarah Palin and her faith, you know that many people do not know what label to stick on her. Is she a “fundamentalist”? Is she a “Pentecostal” Christian? A “charismatic”? An off-the-rack, nondenominational, evangelical Protestant?
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Praying about the economy
Many GetReligion readers have been anxious for more religion stories that deal with the economic crisis.
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