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Dallas Voice weighs in with a report about Matthew Bass, who says he was forced out of Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary after administrators asked if he was gay.
Katherine Makinney wasn’t looking for a fight about abortion when she began advertising through Google’s AdWords program. She just wanted to promote a series of films, some by her and some by other directors, to receptive audiences, like church youth groups.
Dallas Morning News columnist Rod Dreher just wrote in to comment on the Peggy Noonan column, linking that to a PrimeTime report last night.
The whole subject of religion and the mainstream news media is getting more attention at several locations on the web, in addition to this blog. Doug and I will be doing what we can to point readers toward these other resources as they come along, each with its own emphasis and point of view.
Peggy Noonan is not a religion-beat writer. But she is one of the rare national-level commentators who truly get the fact that religious faith is at the heart of many of America’s most important trends and debates and, thus, news stories.
The New York Times recently offered a fascinating article about an interesting cyberspace trend — Christian groups starting WWW sites on interesting topics and then slipping in the Gospel under the radar.
Judy Bachrach’s profile of John Ashcroft in the February issue of Vanity Fair (available only in the print edition) is not merely a smear job but a sustained attack on Ashcroft’s faith. The piece is most annoying for its recycling of the absurd rumor that Ashcroft considers calico cats “instruments of the Devil.”
