Terry has suggested that The Dreamers and The Passion of the Christ could represent the same red state-blue state cultural divide made so famous on election night in 2000.
Jews who see red or blue
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Robertson, Rooney and Ebert, oh my!
Surely it says something about the Passion media storm that even the folks at E! Online News are being driven to dig out some sources in havens of mainstream faith such as Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Let the hunt begin: The best and worst of Passion coverage
A confession from Tmatt: I am recieving so many URLs today about “The Passion of the Christ” that I do not even have time to read half of the stories. The other irony is that I am trying to read them while trying to get my own mind clear enough to write my own column for this week — about one angle (among 1,000s) about this story.
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George Bush as "born-again maniac"
On the problem of writers using evangelical as a synonym for fundamentalist, here are two paragraphs from the irrepressible Andrew Sullivan. Sullivan is writing about the tendency to treat Bush as the village idiot, but his humorous points are no less valuable:
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Courting the lifestyle left, free-thinking "Da Vinci Vote"
It’s a rare thing to watch a journalist stick his pen directly into a vein and say precisely what he is thinking, but I suspect that is what San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford did a few days ago with his amazing rant titled “Is Your Religion Unsanitary? Is God telling you to love war? Loathe gays? Restrict women? Join the godless throngs now!”
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The uber jocks at Liberty U: debaters!
Michelle Boorstein of The Washington Post wrote a charming front-page story last week about the debate team at Liberty University — yes, the university founded by Jerry Falwell, everybody’s favorite “fundamentalist” whipping post. (Boorstein could have been one of the few journalists to use fundamentalist within the standards of AP; for several years Falwell published a magazine called Fundamentalist Journal. But she had a more interesting story to tell.)
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Creeping Fundamentalism II: Define "evangelical." Give three examples
One of the hardest words to define in American religion is “evangelical.” Does the word have doctrinal content? Is it defined only by emotion and experience? In the mid-1980s, Billy Graham told me that he had no idea what that word meant to most of the people who were using it.
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Blogs: A good place for journalism confession (in Dallas)
The quotation from A.J. Liebling is one of the most famous in all of journalism: “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”
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Wanted: One classy, nuanced GetReligion logo
Time for a personal favor. Doug and I are searching all over the web for something. We know of a cathedral or two — St. John the Divine in New York City leaps to mind — that have stained-glass windows with images drawn from journalism and mass media. But we can’t find these images.
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